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Mildred Thornton

Happily Ever After at Happy Retreat

June 20, 2018 / ferryfarmandkenmore

At George Washington’s Ferry Farm, most of our thinking, research, and writing is focused on the best known and most significant of all Americans, George Washington.  But George was not the only Washington to live at Ferry Farm nor was he even the only Washington boy to grow up on this land along the Rappahannock … Continue reading Happily Ever After at Happy Retreat

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