Visited the farm where George Washington lived as a boy. Not much is left from his time.
Visitors center
This would have been fields or garden area. The small cabin is from the late 1800's.
They are doing an archaeological dig to find out buildings from Washington's time near the white cabin.
The stones mark the corners of Washington's home.
View toward the river from the home site.
Neighbor house across the river.
View of the homestead from the river
Stopped at Fredericksburg Civil War Battlefield
The stone wall is one side of a sunken road the the Confederates used as a line of defense to hold the hill from the Union attach.
Memorial at the Fredericksburg cemetery
The sunken road. The house was built since the civil war.
Union cemetery
Confederate canon positions
Small house that was there during the battle
Gates to a lawyers house that was used as a hospital during the battle.
This section of the wall is original to the civil war. The rest has been rebuilt.
House that was used as the hospital
Bullet holes can still be seen in the small house from the battle
The small house
Sunken road.
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