George Washington's Office
32 W Cork St, Winchester, VA 22601, USA
Virginia, USA
MUSEUM
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VILLAGE
EST. 1755
EST. 1755
1755–1756
Washington, George
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HISTORIC PRESERVATION at George Washington's Office.
A small eighteenth-century log building survives within a museum complex in Winchester and contains the room Washington used as a military office. Preserved timber fabric, period furnishings, artifacts, exhibits, grounds, and an outdoor cannon interpret his early service on Virginia’s frontier.
About George Washington's Office
Winchester played an important role in George Washington’s early adult life; his military and political career began here. As a young man of sixteen, he came to the area to begin what he thought would be his life’s profession, surveying. With the earnings from his surveying business he was able to buy a number of acres around Frederick County and also a lot in the town that enabled him to serve as a Burgess From Frederick County 1758-1765. During the French and Indian War he commanded the Virginia Regiment from his headquarters in Winchester.
HISTORY HAPPENED HERE at George Washington's Office
Washington planned Fort Loudoun, supervised the work and brought his own blacksmiths from Mount Vernon to do the ironwork. The fort was a redoubt with four bastions; there were fourteen mounted cannon and it covered one-half acre. It was made of logs filled with earth and inside there were barracks for 450 men. A well was sunk 103 feet through solid limestone rock to supply the fort with water. This well is all that remains of the fort today.
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