First President of the United States
Term of Office: 1789-1797Birthplace:
George Washington Birthplace National Monument
1732 Popes Creek Road
Washington's Birthplace, VA 22443-5115
804-224-1732
George Washington, America’s first and greatest hero, was crucial to the establishment of the United States as a nation founded on the principles of liberty. George Washington Birthplace preserves the heart of the Washington lands and a memorial plantation. Here, in the peace and beauty of this place untouched by time, the staunch character of our hero comes to the imagination.
Homes:
George Washington's Ferry Farm
Kenmore Plantation and Gardens Association
King's Highway
Stafford County, VA 22554
540-373-3381
Ferry Farm is the boyhood home of George Washington. Augustine Washington moved his family to this property Read exciting news about Ferry Farm!in 1738, when his son, George, was six years old. George received his formal education during his years here, and forged friendships in the neighborhood that lasted the rest of his life. In 1754, George moved to Mount Vernon while his mother, Mary Ball Washington, stayed on at the farm until 1772, when she moved to Fredericksburg. Ferry Farm is open daily for self-guiding tours that offer the freedom to roam the 80+ acres of the property at your own pace.
Mount Vernon
Mount Vernon Ladies' Association
George Washington Memorial Parkway
Mt Vernon, VA 22121
703-780-2000
Mount Vernon is owned and maintained in trust for the people of the United States by the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association, a private, non-profit organization founded in 1853 by Ann Pamela Cunningham. The Association is the oldest national historic preservation organization in the country, and it has always been in the forefront of the restoration field.
Mount Vernon is the most popular historic estate in America and is open 365 days a year. The estate, gardens and farm of Mount Vernon totaled some 8,000 acres in the 18th century. Today, roughly 500 acres of this historic estate have been preserved 16 miles south of Washington, D.C., on the banks of the Potomac River. Visitors can see 20 structures and 50 acres of gardens as they existed in 1799. The estate also includes a museum, the tombs of George and Martha Washington, Washington's greenhouse, an outdoor exhibit devoted to American agriculture as practiced by Washington, the nation's most important memorial to the accomplishments of 18th-century slaves, and a collection which features numerous decorative and domestic artifacts. Mount Vernon welcomes an average of 1,000,000 visitors each year.
George Washington's Grist Mill Historical State Park
VA 235
Mount Vernon, VA 22121
703-380-3383
George Washington first acquired a gristmill when he inherited Mount Vernon from the widow of his half-brother, Lawrence, in 1754. This first enterprise was a "custom mill," where wheat and corn were ground not for sale, but mainly for neighboring farmers and for consumption on the Estate.
River Farm
American Horticultural Society
George Washington Memorial Parkway
Alexandria, VA 22308-1300
800-777-7931
River Farm became the northernmost of Washington's five farms, and today's River Farm is located on the northernmost division of that property.
Deshler-Morris House
National Park Service
5442 Germantown Pike
Philadelphia, PA 19118
215-596-1748
The oldest official presidential residence, the Germantown White House, (Deshler-Morris House) twice sheltered George Washington. In October 1793, he found refuge during the Yellow Fever epidemic in Philadelphia. Continuing the business of government, he held four cabinet meetings here. The next summer, it was a welcome retreat for him and his family near Philadelphia, the Federal Capital.
