George Washington’s Potomac: A Trip Through History and Geography from Mount Vernon to Great Falls

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You are about to begin an enchanting historical and geographical journey. It features sights and attractions that were a part of George Washington’s life when he lived and worked along the Potomac in the later a part of the eighteenth century. The journey follows a section of one of the most Nation’s most famous rivers-the Potomac as it plunges over Great Falls, and then races through Mather Gorge and on past Little Falls to the Tidewater section upon which Mount Vernon is situated.
This guide is constructed taking into account sites, places, and activities associated with George Washington, the first President of the USA (b. 1732; d. 1799; pres. 1789 to 1797). Our objective is to use these associations as a frame¬work that shows the places that were a part of his life and further reveals what life used to be like all the way through the late colonial and early national periods of American history. This is a very powerful time in the area’s geographical development because it marks the height of the agrarian plantation settlement pattern associated with Tidewater Virginia-Maryland and the beginning of urbanization in the Washington, D.C. area. By examining the historical remnants, restorations, and reconstructions from this period, we will appreciate the effects of more than 225 years of urbanization that have transformed a rural agricul¬tural landscape associated with Washington the person into an integral a part of a major urban area defined by the Nation’s Capital.

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