by gwffoundation | Apr 10, 2020 | Lewis Family, Lives & Legacies, Washington family
George Washington was the oldest of Augustine and Mary Washington’s five children. The next oldest was daughter Betty, who was born 14 months after George and was his only sister. George and Betty are immensely important to us at George Washington’s Ferry Farm &...
by gwffoundation | Apr 1, 2020 | Lives & Legacies
True or False? George Washington was born in England in 1732? FALSE – Although technically he was born a subject of the King on “English” soil, George was born on his father’s farm on Pope’s Creek in Westmoreland County in the English colony of Virginia in 1732. The...
by gwffoundation | Mar 20, 2019 | George Washington's Ferry Farm, Lives & Legacies, Washington family
When visitors come to George Washington’s Ferry Farm, they can stand in what were once the fields of the Washington family’s farm, where they grew tobacco and other crops. While living here, Augustine Washington, George’s father, taught his sons – George, Samuel, John...
by gwffoundation | Oct 31, 2018 | Lives & Legacies, Washington family
On December 14, 1799, as George Washington lay in his final moments on his death bed, he told his secretary Tobias Lear what were likely his last words. Tobias recalled later: “About ten o’clk he made several attempts to speak to me before he could effect...
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by gwffoundation | May 9, 2018 | Building George's House, George Washington's Ferry Farm, Lives & Legacies
The Washington house at Ferry Farm is now open for tours! Using information from the probate inventory and archaeological evidence, the interpretive replica of George Washington’s boyhood home is currently being furnished with replica furniture and ceramics. You can...
