“Warburton Manor”

Patented 1661

Home of the Digges Family (descendants of Edward Digges, governor of Virginia, 1652–1668). The most intimate friend of George and Martha Washington in Prince George’s County, where they visited many times. Washington spent his forty-third birthday here. Now site of Fort Washington, designed by L’Enfant 1814.

Marker is on Fort Washington Road 0.8 miles west of Old Fort Road, in the median.