George Washington Birthplace National Monument

The George Washington Birthplace National Monument is in Westmoreland County, Virginia, United States. Initially settled by John Washington, George Washington's awesome granddad, George Washington was conceived here on February 22, 1732. He lived here until age three, returning later as a youngster.

At the passage to the grounds, now kept up and worked by the National Park Service, is a Memorial Shaft pillar of Vermont marble, which is a one-tenth scale imitation of the Washington Monument in Washington, D.C.

The George Washington Birthplace National Monument, where Popes Creek joins the Potomac River, is illustrative of eighteenth century Virginia tobacco ranches. A Memorial House with eighteenth century decorations is interested in guests. The recreation center's homestead structures, forests of trees, domesticated animals, gardens, and products of tobacco and wheat, speak to the childhood environment Washington knew.

George Washington's awesome granddad settled this ranch in 1657 at the first site on Bridges Creek.[ The family procured extra land situated on close-by Popes Creek where the main area of the house in which George Washington was conceived was worked before 1718 and augmented by his dad between 1722–1726. It was further broadened by the mid-1770s to a ten-room house, known as "Wakefield". This house, which George Washington in 1792 would portray as "the antiquated chateau seat," was pulverized by flame and surge on Christmas Day, 1779, and never rebuilt.

Thirty-two graves of Washington relatives have been found at the Bridges Creek burial ground plot, including George's stepbrother, father, granddad, and incredible granddad.

Washington's dad developed tobacco on his few manors, which was work concentrated, including the work of oppressed Africans and African Americans. When George Washington was conceived, the number of inhabitants in the Virginia province was 50 percent dark, a large portion of whom were subjugated. "20 or somewhere in the vicinity" slaves took a shot at the little tobacco ranch at Popes Creek, amid the time that Washington lived there.