George Washington Carver's Birthplace

The cabin site offers an impression of the slave cabin in which Carver was born. Its mysteries reflect the confused circumstances of Carver's early life.

The log cabin in which George Washington Carver was born was not built with the intention ...

George Washington Carver National Monument

Immediately after George Washington Carver’s death in 1943, the United States Congress recognized the importance of keeping his memory alive by establishing Carver’s birthplace as a national monument.

George Washington Carver first made an impression on Congress when he appeared ...

George Washington

George Washington owned a tract of land nearby. He surveyed and formed a company to drain a part of the Dismal Swamp, 1763.

Marker is on Highway 32 N (North Carolina Route 32) south of Folly Road, on the left ...

George Washington's Gristmill

In 1771, George Washington replaced a deteriorated gristmill that his father, Augustine, may have erected as early as the 1730s. The new mil ground grain from Mount Vernon and neighboring farms, and was outfitted with two pairs of millstones. In ...

Ridgebury – George Washington Slept Here

Ridgefield, Connecticut

Ridgebury, "The New Patent," was one of the last land purchases made by the Proprietors. Tradition says that the First Congregational Church in Ridgebury had its beginnings in the "New Patent Meeting House" as early as 1738. In ...

George Washington Lot

Site of lot 77 purchased by George Washington May 15, 1753. Sold by his executors on June 17, 1805 to Dr. Robert MacKey, surgeon in the American Revolution.

A blacksmith shop located here made iron work for Fort Loudoun.

The lot was ...

George Washington’s Out-Lot

Here was located George Washington’s five-acre out-lot from Thomas Lord Fairfax, Baron of Cameron, by grant of 15 May 1753. Fairfax also granted him a companion in-lot 77 at North Braddock Street and Fairfax Lane. The out-lot was number 16 ...

George Washington

In March of 1748, George Washington, at age sixteen, arrived in Winchester, then called Frederick Town. During the next four years, he worked as a surveyor throughout the colonial Virginia frontier.

Marker is at the intersection of Cork Street and Braddock ...

George Washington

In December, 1753, George Washington came here with notice from the governor of Virginia to the French that they were trespassing on British soil. The statue shows Washington carrying out his first public mission.

Marker is at the intersection of High ...

George Washington’s Coffee Bean Tree

This Coffee Bean Tree a Scion

of a Tree planted at Mount Vernon by

George Washington

A Tree which he raised from

Seed Brought Back by Him from the

Ohio Valley in 1784

Replanted Here – 1954

Marker can be ...