September 2, 2010

Young George Washington

This statue of Washington as a young surveyor stands by his old office in Winchester, VA. Dedicated in 2004, the bronze sculpture is the creation of Malcolm Harlow. (See article by Emily Vass.)

A plaque tells us that:
In March of 1748, George Washington, at age sixteen, arrived in Winchester, then called Frederick Town. During the next four years, he worked as a surveyor throughout the colonial Virginia frontier.

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