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    Ferry Farm, also known as the George Washington Boyhood Home Site or the Ferry Farm Site, is the farm and home where George Washington spent much of his...
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  • Ferry Farm is an unincorporated community in Stafford County, in the U.S. state of Virginia. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System:...
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    before settling at Ferry Farm near Fredericksburg, Virginia, in 1738. When Augustine died in 1743, Washington inherited Ferry Farm and ten slaves; Lawrence...
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    The McCalls Ferry Farm, also known as the Robert and Matthew McCall Farm, Atkins-Trout Farm, and Kilgore Farm, is an historic, American farm and national...
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    plantation on the Upper Potomac. At age seven, the Washington family moved to Ferry Farm close to Fredericksburg, Virginia in search for better economic prospects...
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    rather, like a dog." Mary managed the family estate and 276 acres of Ferry Farm (a plantation) with the help of others until her eldest son came of age...
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    150-acre Strother property across the Rappahannock River (now known as Ferry Farm) and moved the family there at the end of that same year. Augustine Washington...
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    Ferry Plantation House, or Old Donation Farm, Ferry Farm, Walke Manor House, is a brick house in the neighborhood of Old Donation Farm in Virginia Beach...
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    1742 Fairfax County). In late 1738, Augustine moved his young family to Ferry Farm, which he had recently purchased, on the edge of Fredericksburg in King...
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    Machine; The Free Lance-Star, accessed February 19, 2022. Updates from Ferry Farm and Hollywood Archived March 6, 2017, at the Wayback Machine; The Free...
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    Harpers Ferry is a historic town in Jefferson County, West Virginia, in the lower Shenandoah Valley. The town's population was 269 at the 2020 United...
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    The Carson-Annis Ferry Farm, near Morgantown, Kentucky, United States, is a historic area which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places....
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    of his childhood in the lower part of the county at his family's home Ferry Farm (which at the time was part of King George County), along the Rappahannock...
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    Durham, son of Mary Ann and Frederick Charles Ferry. His parents were working-class: his father was a farm labourer who also looked after pit ponies. He...
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    Weedon Mercer, and Hugh Tennant Mercer. In 1774, George Washington sold Ferry Farm, his childhood home, to Mercer, who wanted to make this prized land into...
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  • of private presidential residences was at Dwight Eisenhower's Gettysburg farm, where the Secret Service added three guard posts to a fence. Federal law...
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    Ingles Ferry (sometimes referred to as English Ferry) is the site of a historic ferry crossing on the New River in western Virginia, near the city of Radford...
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    New Farm Park ferry wharf is located on the northern side of the Brisbane River serving the Brisbane suburb of New Farm in Queensland, Australia. It is...
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    Horatio Gates and the Continental Army in the September 19 Battle of Freeman's Farm at the cost of significant casualties. His gains were erased when he again...
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    a rick is something that Colonial Williamsburg and the recreation of Ferry Farm have had to develop from conjecture and in-the-field learning. The rick...
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    Washington's time have also been added to the landscaping. The Colonial Living Farm has a barn and pasture and raises livestock, poultry, and crops that were...
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  • California Ferry Farm, the childhood home of George Washington in Stafford County, Virginia Ferry Field, a stadium in Ann Arbor, Michigan Ferry railway station...
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    Mount Vernon (category Farm museums in Virginia)
    through woods down to a recreated pioneer farm site on low ground near the river; the 4-acre (16,000 m2) working farm includes a re-creation of Washington's...
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    his father moved the family to Stafford County, where he was raised on Ferry Farm. Samuel Washington suffered from tuberculosis for much of his life, and...
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    Anton Ernst Porsche (19 September 1909 – 27 March 1998), mainly known as Ferry Porsche, was an Austrian-German technical automobile designer and automaker-entrepreneur...
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    noon on April 20, Washington arrived to an elaborate welcome at Gray's Ferry in Philadelphia. On April 21, the Ladies of Trenton hosted his reception...
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    River Farm (25 acres (10 ha)), permanent home to the American Horticultural Society (AHS) headquarters, is a (27 acres (11 ha)) landscape located at 7931...
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    following spring. Washington encamped his Continental Army near McConkey's Ferry in present-day Upper Makefield Township, not far from the crossing site...
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    (2001). Appalachian Trail Guide to New Hampshire-Vermont (10th ed.). Harpers Ferry: The Appalachian Trail Conference. p. 51. ISBN 1-889386-21-9. The Indian...
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    and is open daily for guided tours. The Foundation also owns nearby Ferry Farm, where George Washington lived as a child. The house was completed in...
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