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At home with the president: As America goes to the polls, George Washington's house in Virginia is proving to be a vote winner
Washington had moved to his family home in 1754. His father had built the large mansion in colonial Virginia on 8,000 acres some 20 years earlier. George inherited the estate, which produced ...
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How George Washington’s Brandywine Headquarters Became a National Treasure
The Ring House, later known as Washington’s Headquarters, played a pivotal role in the Battle of Brandywine on Sept. 11, 1777 ...
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George Washington House
Now a museum, this 18th-century plantation house (also known as Bush Hill House) was the base for George Washington and his sick half-brother Lawrence (who had tuberculosis) for two months in 1751.
As Trump returns to White House, the 225-year-old history of the world’s most famous building
Every US president except for George Washington has stayed at the White House. Ironically, it was he who was deeply involved in the construction, which started in 1792. As Donald Trump returns, we loo ...
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Inauguration history: What happened on the day George Washington became president in 1789
On the afternoon of April 30, 1789, George Washington was sworn in as the first ... elect traveled from his temporary lodging at Franklin House — which would soon become the first presidential ...