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George Washington's Childhood Home

VA , USA

Latitude & Longitude: 38° 17' 45.022992", -77° 26' 52.088496"
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The Washington family moved to a plantation here in 1738 when George Washington was six years old. Along with his three brothers and sister, young Washington spent most of his early life here, where, according to popular fable, he cut down his father's cherry tree and uttered the immortal words, I cannot tell a lie. His father, Augustine, died here in 1743, leaving the property to him. His mother, Mary Ball Washington, lived here until 1772 when she moved to a house in Fredericksburg that Washington bought for her.

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