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Nature Trail (George Washington Birthplace National Monument, VA)

On By Andrew WojtanikIn Easy Hikes, Revolutionary War, Virginia2 Comments

- Revolutionary War Series - The roughly one-mile Nature Trail at Virginia’s George Washington Birthplace National Monument offers a short journey through peaceful woodlands situated across Dancing Marsh from the main historic area. The forest was the old stomping grounds of George Washington, who, despite moving area from the Pope’s Creek area when he was …

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George Washington Birthplace National Monument, VA

On By Andrew WojtanikIn Revolutionary War, Virginia2 Comments

- Revolutionary War Series - George Washington Birthplace National Monument in Tidewater Virginia is, at least to some degree, a fraud. Yes, to the best of our knowledge, the Revolutionary War hero and first U.S. president was born here, on what was once Pope’s Creek Plantation, in February 1732. The structures that exist today, however—from …

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