George Washington

Residence 1

📍268 Kings Hwy, Fredericksburg, VA 22405, USA

“My father Augustine moved us to Ferry Farm on the Rappahannock when I was six years old. The house stood on the river's north bank facing Fredericksburg, and my education consisted chiefly of what I could observe from its windows and fields. My father died when I was eleven, leaving my half-brother Lawrence as my guardian and Mount Vernon as my ambition. At Ferry Farm I learned to survey from the fields themselves, to shoot from the wooded banks, and to manage men from watching my mother Mary's authority over a household that had too many children and too few resources. There was no cherry tree — that story is nonsense invented by a biographer with more sentiment than conscience. What is true is that the river taught me discipline: it floods, it freezes, it gives and takes back. And that the crossing to Fredericksburg taught me that a man must know how to get to the other side.”

Sources: Wikipedia: Ferry Farm

Residence 2

📍3200 Mount Vernon Memorial Hwy, Mount Vernon, VA 22121, USA

“After eight years of war and eight years of the presidency, I wanted nothing more than to come home to Mount Vernon. I had always loved this land above everything else — the prospect over the Potomac, the Five Farms. I enlarged the mansion three times during my life, always trying to make it worthy of the view. When I retired here in 1797, I told Adams I was done with public life. I gardened, I farmed, I managed. Two years later I was gone.”

Sources: Wikipedia: George Washington