Show WASHINGTON'S BIRTHPLACE s R F t 4 ve x v mss r 4 r rd rt t d' d L L was born In a ahouse ahouse ahouse W WASHINGTON house facing Popes creek In Westmoreland county Virginia but the house burned on December 25 i 1780 1750 Th The old homesite has been Included In the George Washington Birthplace National rational monument and the house restored between 1030 and 1032 1002 on Its lis original site The old family burial ground containing con con- the bodies of Washington's father father father fa fa- ther grandfather and great ther Is Included on the acre reser reser- The George Washington Birthplace BIrthplace Birthplace Birth BIrth- place National Monument Is 00 miles mlles from tram Washington on United States Slates route 1 and Virginia State route 3 The Washington family first settled at Wake ld In 1665 a full tull century before the Revolution Col John Washington great grandfather of ot the President had come to Westmoreland Va In lie Ile died and was was' burled there In 1070 1076 1 Lawrence WashInton Washington Wash Wash- ington Inton In tou and MaJ John Washington his sons succeeded ed him After their marriages the family lived on separate parts of at the Wakefield Wakefield Wakefield Wake- Wake field estate until the house In which George Washington was born burned After Atter that the continued In other houses on the same land and descendants still live on part of at the same Wakefield estate estate estate-a a continuous possession In whole or In part for tor years years eight eight generations |