GEORGE WASHINGTON BIRTHPLACE Guidebook 1941

CONTENTS

Cover

THE COVER

This view shows the memorial mansion, erected in 1931 and dedicated May 14, 1932. The giant hackberry tree in front of the doorway is said to have grown from a root sprout after the parent tree was killed by the fire which destroyed the original birthplace house. The fig bush seen to the right of the hackberry tree and over the top of the roses originated from roots of fig trees growing on the grounds at the time that Washington lived here. The boxwood in the center along the walk leading from the house to the garden was brought from the old houw of Sarah Tayloe Washington, about 8 miles from Wakefield, and is about 125 years old

View of Popes Creek

1941	UNITED STATES DEPARTMENTOF THE INTERIOR HAROLD L. ICKES, Secretary NATIONAL PARK SERVICE • NEWTON B. DRURY, Director