The George Washington Foundation

Come home to history at Ferry Farm and Historic Kenmore

George Washington’s Ferry Farm is where young Washington spent his formative years and became an extraordinary man.  The future general and first president was 6 years old when his family moved to King George County (now Stafford County), Virginia, in 1738.

Historic Kenmore is a beautiful Georgian-style brick mansion built for George Washington’s sister, Betty Washington Lewis, and her husband, Fredericksburg merchant Fielding Lewis, reflecting their pre-Revolutionary War wealth and gentry status.