The Rising Sun Tavern is a historic building in Fredericksburg, Virginia. It was built in about 1760 as a home by Charles Washington, youngest brother...
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no longer extant (Old York Road § Rising Sun Tavern (Philadelphia)) The Rising Sun Tavern (Fredericksburg, Virginia), known in the 18th century as the...
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Arundel County, Maryland Rising Sun Tavern (North Haven, Connecticut) Rising Sun Tavern (Fredericksburg, Virginia) Rising Sun High School (Maryland), North...
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Fredericksburg is an independent city in Virginia, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 27,982. It is 48 miles (77 km) south of Washington...
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Plantation, is a plantation house at 1201 Washington Avenue in Fredericksburg, Virginia. Built in the 1770s, it was the home of Fielding and Betty Washington...
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Washington House Rising Sun Tavern St. James' House "Powder Magazine in Williamsburg". On This Day: Legislative Moments in Virginia History. Virginia Historical...
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Mary Ball Washington House (category Houses in Fredericksburg, Virginia)
the house—on the town's main street—was converted into a tavern. Today, as the Rising Sun Tavern, it is open as a building museum managed by the local Washington...
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Charles Washington (category People from Charles Town, West Virginia)
and built a house, which exists today but is known as the historic "Rising Sun Tavern." In 1773 he bought an additional 200 acres in Spotsylvania County...
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a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Fredericksburg, Virginia. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts...
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Battle of Chancellorsville (category 1863 in Virginia)
attempted to reach Richmond by way of Fredericksburg, Virginia, but was defeated at the Battle of Fredericksburg. In January 1863, the Army of the Potomac...
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Washington family (category English-American culture in West Virginia)
rose to great economic and political eminence especially in the Colony of Virginia as part of the planter class, owning several highly valued plantations...
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Museums in Virginia. This list of museums in Virginia, United States, contains museums which are defined for this...
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the Confederate Army during the American Civil War in Arlington County, Virginia. The estate of the historic home along with a memorial to Lee are now the...
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Augustine Washington (category People from Westmoreland County, Virginia)
property until 1772 when she was 64 when George moved her to a house in Fredericksburg. Lawrence Washington inherited the Little Hunting Creek property and...
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Washington, D.C. A Christmas Carol Nephew Fred Fredericksburg Summer Theatre, Fredericksburg, Virginia 1776 - Edward Rutledge Annie Get Your Gun - Frank...
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Ferry Farm (category National Historic Landmarks in Virginia)
located in Stafford County, Virginia, along the northern bank of the Rappahannock River, across from the city of Fredericksburg. In July 2008, archaeologists...
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Washington Birthplace National Monument is 38 miles (61 km) east of Fredericksburg, Virginia, located on the Northern Neck. It can be reached via VA Route 204...
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Betty Washington Lewis (category People from Fredericksburg, Virginia)
1750 at age 17, Fielding Lewis bought 861 acres of Land close to Fredericksburg, Virginia. The property was 1270 acres including inherited land. Soon construction...
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This is a list of National Historic Landmarks in Virginia. There are currently 123 National Historic Landmarks (NHLs), and 2 former NHLs. Map all coordinates...
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Abingdon (plantation) (category Brick buildings and structures in Virginia)
"National Airport: Plantation to be spared". The Free Lance-Star. Fredericksburg, Virginia. Associated Press. November 21, 1992. Archived from the original...
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Norfolk and Western 611 (category History of Virginia)
Northern—to handle rising mainline passenger traffic over the Blue Ridge Mountains, especially on steep grades in Virginia and West Virginia. The N&W built...
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George Washington (category Continental Army officers from Virginia)
Hunting Creek in 1734 before eventually settling in Ferry Farm near Fredericksburg, Virginia. When Augustine died in 1743, Washington inherited Ferry Farm and...
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Eugenia Washington (category Catholics from Virginia)
at Falmouth in Stafford County, Virginia, located on the north side of the Rappahannock River across from Fredericksburg. Washington's father suffered from...
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Samuel Washington (category People from Charles Town, West Virginia)
in the Rappahannock River watershed drained by Deep Run southwest of Fredericksburg. He ultimately sold these properties, using some of the proceeds to...
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and his men were then assigned to picket and scout details south of Fredericksburg, and advance guard and scouting details which supported the movements...
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Lawrence Washington (1718–1752) (category People from Fairfax County, Virginia)
from Kingston, Jamaica, to his father, Augustine Washington, in Fredericksburg, Virginia. MVLA archives, PS-835 Giaffo, Lou. Gooch's Marines, Dorrance Publishing...
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Mt. Vernon) had fled to the British, and the Fredericksburg absconder was later taken prisoner by Virginia forces. By his departure from Mt. Vernon in...
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Happy Retreat (category Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in West Virginia)
living at Ferry Farm, near Fredericksburg, Virginia. In 1780, Charles and his wife Mildred moved to his land from Fredericksburg. By that time, he had constructed...
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Mount Vernon (category Archaeological sites in Virginia)
tobacco plantation, thereby allowing Augustine to move his family back to Fredericksburg at the end of 1739. In 1739, Lawrence, having reached 21 years of age...
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translator during the American Revolution. Member of Fredericksburg Lodge No. 4, Fredericksburg, Virginia. Pierre Van Cortlandt (10 January 1721–1 May 1814)...
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