Hugh Mercer Apothecary Shop
1020 Caroline Street, Fredericksburg, VA, USA
Virginia, USA
MUSEUM
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EST. 1772
EST. 1772
1772
Lewis, Bett Washington
Washington, George
Washington, Martha Dandridge
Washington, Mary Ball
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HISTORIC PRESERVATION at Hugh Mercer Apothecary Shop.
A restored eighteenth-century building operates as a period apothecary museum in Fredericksburg. Washington Heritage Museums preserves furnished shop rooms, medical instruments, remedies, collections, and architectural fabric, with guided interpretation demonstrating historical medical and pharmaceutical practices associated with Hugh Mercer’s profession.
About Hugh Mercer Apothecary Shop
This eighteenth-century building was restored to house the Hugh Mercer Apothecary Shop, a museum of medicine, pharmacy, and military and political affairs. Dr. Mercer served the citizens of Fredericksburg with medicines and treatments of the time. Leeches, lancets, snakeroot, and crab claws made up just some of the remedies. Dr. Mercer practiced medicine for fifteen years in Fredericksburg. His patients included Mary Washington. Dr. Mercer left his practice to join the Revolutionary army and died as a Brigadier General at the Battle of Princeton.
HISTORY HAPPENED HERE at Hugh Mercer Apothecary Shop
Hugh Mercer Apothecary was an apothecary founded by Hugh Mercer in the mid-18th century. Mercer was a doctor who fled Scotland after the Battle of Culloden. He travelled to Pennsylvania, where he met Colonel George Washington during the French and Indian War and later moved to Fredericksburg, Virginia, on Washington's advice to practice medicine and operate an apothecary.
Hugh Mercer (January 16, 1726 – January 12, 1777) was a brigadier general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. He fought in the New York and New Jersey campaign and was mortally wounded at the Battle of Princeton.
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