Historic Shrines of America

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.

The Mary Washington House, Fredericksburg, Virginia

4 shrines in this part of Historic Shrines of America.

The Mary Washington House, Fredericksburg, Virginia

WHERE WASHINGTON'S MOTHER SPENT HER LAST YEARS The first property mentioned in connection with the name of Mary Ball, who became the mother…

The Mary Washington House, Fredericksburg, Virginia: Laurence

This "Belle of the Northern Neck," as she came to be called, continued her conquests of young and old until, at twenty-two, an orphan, she…

The Mary Washington House, Fredericksburg, Virginia: Grove

The new home was at Pine Grove, in Stafford County, on the Rappahannock River, opposite Fredericksburg.

The Mary Washington House, Fredericksburg, Virginia: Lewis

One by one the children left Pine Grove. In 1750 Betty Washington was married to Colonel Fielding Lewis, who built for her the stately…

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