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North Shore News-Letter (1907), 13 Feb 1909, p. 1

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’ERVIOE 005/1158 V008 and 127 ' l’ES 1- '* thon by, the Rnppnhnno hock won the boyhood home of George Wnnbinston. There he nuended school to 111'. Bobby, nod there the upochrr phni cherry tron incident was laid; may he Inbdued the wild coit,‘ end there -he threw -n silver doilnr. or other object, ncrou the Rnppahannock river. The colt incident in believable and the pitching Itory is plausible. It one at Mencken": that Wuh- illtou won initinted into lnoonry. It on there thnt he took nun] lenv‘e of his mother heloro naming the office 0‘ proddent in New York. nnd ~it was} _tbere thnt In. Wuhingtou, succee- Iiveiy known in thnt city and the country roundnbout on “the Rose of loving Forest,” "Belle othncnster,” “the Romeo mean" end "“015 m- dme." died Aunt-t 25, 1789. . Not long after the birth of George Wuhington, between Pope'r and Bruno's cnehn in Wentmoreinnd coun- t7. the thinuton femiiyr-motbeqr tnther. Augustine. Lawrence nnd Georgeâ€"removed to n into: in sum-a county, directly ncrosn the river from finderichebm. 'iYhe date, of the re- love] 0! the thin‘tons tram the totomnc to the Rnpp'nhnnnock is doubtful, but it occurred between 1735 Ind 1740. The Rnppnhnnnock farm hnd been owned uyerni yenrs byi Au- (untine Wnshinzton. the elder This form hnn' been vnriously culled Pine Grove end the Ferry lnrm. the letter me being emested by the fact that the tum was opposite thejower Fred- erick-bur: ferry. ~ 7 Hmtral Lands of )9 the Washington‘s on the Potomac between Hunting crook tad Dotuo run. which Lawrence subsequently named Mount Vernon. To George, when he should come at George Wuhington'e inther died April 12, 1743. leaving large landed poo-union... Whether he'wn buried on the 1th fun. or wheth- er In: body wupken back to the old Wuhinxton family burying ground an "to lower Potomoc it not known. He bequeathed the old home place on the Potomac to his eldest-on, Augustine. To his eon Lowrance he left the (am Washington until It burned after George had churned his place of living to‘ his hut-brother's hoino In Mount Vernon. After the are In. Washing- tm "mom to a mill frlmé cotuge in muchmz. where ,she lived mine Begum the firm on the ”whatnot. III, years. ad where she died. .It was in this house that Washington took his lut leave or his nether. four month- bei'oro her death. The house ltiil "de at the corner of Charles and Lowiu streets. It is owned ‘hy the Society for the Preservation of “milk Antiquities. and is furnished much u it was when Mrs. Washing- ton lived there. The room in which madmurmmprmmdh' “ii. M hm In Wumnxton'l an. 'oompriud about 2,000 ms. It we: on thin lend thxt Burnside con- ducted his main operation: “hunt the confederate mum pehlnd ma- nta-hurt. After more than 1 cen- tury of trennfen Ind subdivisions the Washington homeeeet has been re- duee'd to 200 acres. The present own- or is F. H. Conan, ; fewer. One of the original Wuhlnxton homes 1: studies shout 100 yards from the Conan cotme. Only the ANY of the kindred of George Washington are 111. in: on the ucestral land: in Weatmorehnd county, VII-um wmm pinto} not of the site of the house In which Wuhlngtonju b0 7 h Blenhejm house, built by “mung; Angolan Wuhlnxton, \nephew 0 George Wuhlnxlon ad non of George Washington's elder hambrother Aw mane. Lou ‘Wumnxton Hunger- !erd, fleet-nut-dele’ce of George Washington, (hello there toâ€"day. lâ€"t'iâ€"Ifitnfnme shitty. and the: show ”mtitwuuseduanoflleoot the We when the Wuhlnnon: lived ”Joinâ€"ii. iii: gum and Orchard. 1! ll out tinker mdjhe rennin“: in m 11nd. planted this you in that m corn. Who! Canon bought A; A“. Thirteenth Year NORTH SHORE NEWS- -LETTEF2L zoo um surrounding my was occupied by. Mrs. bu been renewed. Fwderichb‘urt in: “own south- wud (111 t part of the city in directly ecrou from the .Wuhlnxton home site. The steamboat lending on the city side to within any pistol shot at Across the river :t the upper end at Frederlchburg in the stat house a! Kenmore. George Washington's :1.- tot Elizabeth beame (Invite 0! m. Fielding Lewis (at Fredericksbun. s revoluuowy ofllcer of distinction. H. mm Xenmm in 1740. One of their you I'll mummy ”locum with George Wummon and became the husband of Néule MI. munch- u: of 'the Intro! 00011. Washington gun pm near where are noun stands. Tum pit: has been obliterated. with the exception at 0:19,. which' ha been left as t relic. . To the north at the Waning!” house, but still on land thnt vnn tho Wnamngton farm, In Chnthun, one of the noble places at Virginia Dunn; the union operations nnlnlt Nun's Heights, Chathnm wu Burnsido'l headquarters. It win then the prop- erty of 31:1. Hence LI‘cy. After the If»: it was bought by “Ollie" Wat-on. (New Yorker. out! now is owned by 3 rich cotton muhctnror med Bailey, ivho 1m- nt Grinn. Go. wind blow: frown. northeut 1h. whistle of “who“: o‘n tho Potomac river, 16 miles any, any 51th- SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1909 com tron lick 0|! drinking water. The “any“ thirst my. doc temper animals In much like crou bunny. mdytomentumorlook. Thoughtml bullies lone mot fresh um when My ulna]- on mm It, gm: they no not any. ad they will never do In much mod 3. if: hie tor/county: There she died in 1797 d her children sold Kenmore. The purchuern lnid out their (daily burlnl ground clone to the gave at New Washington: and incloeed the“ lot with a high brick well. leaving the Wnnhinxlon greve outside. Inn-y Wuhlngtfin's gun in long neglect- ed. Various excl-t: to erect. a mono- ment tailed. until in the early '90- n hederlcnbun auctioneer altered the land on which the [rave wen for sale. This mused indignation. money wen subncrlbed end lny‘lo. 18". the pree- em. elude am the! win the new at "any. um et-Wm" in dedjceled. The mother 0! Washington ’wfie buried at a romentic spot In the Ken- more grounds. Soon after the, deeds of In. Wuhlngton her widowed daughter Betty, moved from Kenmore to live ‘wlth her mum. meager: Inn “09100 0.03310? 0! VWI‘IIIWOI. leo Your Fully one-h- Wnur. How It Might Work M .‘1 often will I but” um i autumn-I mains." all the m Induce": per-on. ' “No loam." W [In Caron “In that one you would have M mm to play an." running want In plus. M I! a be ruéllod a win Do. lover: I many, but they do not Alm- give du “motto: to the unw- which no thin repay their kind-cu sad ale thn. [A u all. a New Year'- re elation to use our Mao-co to an Huh I m unubkr manna o! It dol team. clue! at which I. plenty . [not water for n" Ill-Ila. TM Pm That 70".. “Bow fut val . In going?“ uh lull-tut. 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