Show I VAS D a B E RTH Pa LACE vs U b z r e Y n was us born in a 11 ahouse ahouse WASHINGTON house facing Popes creek In Westmoreland county Virginia Vir VIr- ginia but the house burned on December Decem De De- Ie- Ie cem cember er LT 23 i 1780 The old homesite has been included e In the George Washington Birthplace National rational monument and the house restored between tWO 1030 and 1112 on its origInal original inal site The old ohl family burial ground containing the bodies of or Washing Washington's tons tOIlS father futher grandfather and Hul great greut grandfather is s Included on the acre i reservation The Geo George c Washington Wash ington National monument ment meat Is 10 no miles front from Washington on United States route 1 and Virginin Virginia Vir I ginia State Stale route AThe A a. The Washington luu family first set tied at ul in u a full ful century before the Revolution Ic Col Cui John Washington lon great great titer lher of or the President had come clime to Westmoreland Va rD In IG U. U He lie died and null was mas hurled burled there lu Iu 1670 M Lawrence Washington LOn and Maj John Washington his sons succeeded him hint After their marriages es the family lived on separate parts of oC th the I estate until the house In which George Washington toll was born horn burned After that the Washing Washing- tons continued In other houses on the same land lIn and descendants still live on part of the same Wakefield estate a a a continuous possession In whole or part parI for tor years years eight eight genera generations |