Washington

Washington, originally Indiana Boys Camp, is a town that refused to ghost. It was settled in 1849. By 1880 miners had recovered over $10,500,000 in gold here.

Marker is on Washington Road, on the left when traveling east.

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Washington

In August 1850 Washington was the highest point on the South Yuba River at which gold had been discovered with over 1,000 miners. In 1870 the Chinese out numbered the white population. The last try to strike it rich was ...

Birthplace of Washington’s Mother

Seven tenths mile west is Epping Forest. The land was patented by Colonel Joseph Ball, who died there in 1711. His daughter, Mary Ball, mother of George Washington, was born there in 1707/8. The house incorporates parts of the original ...

Washington Crossed the Delaware

Near this spot

Washington

crossed the Delaware

on Christmas night 1776

the eve of the Battle of Trenton.

Marker can be reached from River Road (Pennsylvania Route 32), on the right when traveling north.

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George Washington’s Vision

George Washington’s Vision

George Washington promoted the concept of a great central waterway long before he became this nation’s first President. A surveyor of western lands as a young man, and later a landowner of vast tracts beyond the Alleghenies, Washington ...

Why is the Washington Monument Temporarily Closed?

On August 23, 2011, a magnitude 5.8 earthquake centered in Virginia sent tremors throughout eastern North America. This seismic activity affected a number of Washington, D.C. landmarks, including the Washington Monument. National Park Service engineers and experts in historic ...

Washington Southern Tour

President Washington

was a visitor in the

town of Salisbury,

May 30 – 31, 1791.

Marker is at the intersection of N Main Street and W Council Street, on the left when traveling north on N Main Street.

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George Washington Crossing, 1770

George Washington began a journey on October 5, 1770 to the Ohio Country to see lands he had fought to win and now hoped to own. After a trip, on November 3, up the Kanawha River, the party headed back ...

Soldiers of Washington's Army

In memory of soldiers of

Washington's Army who

died in the old barn, used

as a hospital, five hundred

yards northeast from

this place, during the

winter of 1777-78

Erected Dec. 17, 1925

Marker is on Audubon Road (Pennsylvania Route 4041) 0.1 miles east of Pawlings Road (Pennsylvania ...

Washington's Farm

519 acres owned 1794-1799 by the First President

Thomas Sprigg, Jr., patented in 1725 as "Woodstock" 1,102 acres here, inherited in 1782 by Sprigg's three granddaughters, Sophia, Rebecca, and Elizabeth. Sophia married John Francis Mercer (later Governor of Maryland, 1801-1803.) ...