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At home with the president: As America goes to the polls, George Washington's house in Virginia is proving to be a vote winner
When George Washington was a boy ... the home of America’s first president, overlooking the Potomac River, 16 miles south of the White House. Before overseeing the writing of the Constitution ...
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America’s First Presidential That Was Saved by Women Who Raised $200,000 in the 1850s
When companies wanted to build an oil tank farm across the Potomac in the 1950s, a woman named Frances Payne Bolton bought ...
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Woman rescued after plunging car into Potomac River
The George Washington Parkway was initially closed ... There is no guardrail between the northbound lanes of the parkway and the Potomac River where the crash occurred. And there have been several ...
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Rowing Set for George Washington Invitational
The West Virginia University rowing team will travel to Washington, D.C., on Saturday and Sunday, April 12-13, to compete in the George Washington ...
Centuries-old bottles of cherries unearthed at George Washington’s home
Mount Vernon, George Washington’s famous mansion overlooking the Potomac River, is about 20 miles south of Washington. The ...