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Where did George live when he was growing up and what did the house look like?
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George Washington was born at Popes Creek Plantation (later called Wakefield), located on Virginia's Northern Neck, southeast of Fredericksburg. The house was set on a gentle hill overlooking Popes Creek and the Potomac River, about 3/4 of a mile beyond. In addition to a substantial residence house, the plantation consisted of a number of outbildings, including a kitchen, a dairy, a stable, a barn, and several tobacco houses. When Washington was three years old the family moved farther up the Potomac River to Little Hunting Creek Plantation, which is the site of today's Mount Vernon. Then, when George was six the family moved again, this time to Ferry Farm, located across the Rappahannock River from Fredericksburg. The house, which stood on a bucolic tract of 165 acres, burned on Christmas Eve 1740 but was rebuilt. After the death of his father when George was 11, Washington stayed with his mother at Ferry Farm until he finished his formal education at age 14 and went off to become a surveyor on the Virginia frontier.
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