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- Place Types Museum
- Address 32 W Cork St, Winchester, VA 22601, USA
- Coordinate 39.182478,-78.1675301
- Website https://winchesterhistory.org/george-washingtons-office/
- Rating 4.4
- Compound Code 5RJJ+XX Winchester, Virginia, U
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Quick inexpensive insight to GW's impact on this town in early pre-Revolutionary period, plus cool downtown to other historic sites
Very interesting place to visit. The guide inside the Office was great, with a good
George Washington used a little log building, now the middle room of George Washington Office Museum, as a military office from September 1755 to December of 1756 while Fort Loudoun was being constructed at the north end of town. Washington planned Fort Loudoun, supervised the work and brought his own blacksmiths from Mount Vernon to do the ironwork. The fort was a redoubt with four bastions; there were fourteen mounted cannon and it covered one-half acre. It was made of logs filled with earth and inside there were barracks for 450 men. A well was sunk 103 feet through solid limestone rock to supply the fort with water. This well is all that remains of the fort today.nnLocated on the grounds of the museum is a cannon that was left by General Edward Braddock in Alexandria. It is among a number of artifacts displayed at the office. The current exhibit is entitled “George Washington and the West.” This display includes some of Washington’s personal effects, surveying equipment and a scale model of the town of Winchester circa 1755 which shows the fort prominently located at the north end of the town.
Even closed, the history of the property was evident and an excitement that you could be standing in the places that a founding father had been.
Fun little Museum to see. Small two room cabin with things to read. Small fee to enter.
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