Paul Revere's house, Faneuil Hall, the Craigie House where Longfellow wrote, a hundred more — an American pilgrimage told building by building, when many of these places were still fighting to survive.

Mount Vernon, Virginia

2 shrines in this part of Historic Shrines of America.

Mount Vernon, Virginia

SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF GEORGE WASHINGTON George Washington was twenty years old when he became the owner of the Mount Vernon estate on the…

Mount Vernon, Virginia: Watson

A visitor of January 19, 1785, was Elkanah Watson.

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