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(Encyclopedia) Mount Vernon, NE Va., overlooking the Potomac River near Alexandria, S of Washington, D.C.; home of George Washington from 1747 until his death in 1799. The land was patented in 1674, and the house wa...
(Encyclopedia) District of Columbia, federal
district (2020 pop. 689,545), 69 sq mi (179 sq km), on the east bank of the
Potomac River, coextensive with the city of Wa...
(Encyclopedia) Georgetown.
1 Town (2020 pop. 37,086), Scott co., N central Ky., in the
bluegrass country; settled 1776, inc. 1790. In a rich agricultural,
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(Encyclopedia) Arlington, county (2020 pop.
238,643), N Va., across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C. Arlington is a residential and
commercial suburb of Washington. Within its boundaries are Arlin...
(Encyclopedia) Pennsylvania Railroad, former U.S. transportation company; inc. 1846 by the Pennsylvania legislature. It opened in 1854 as a single-track line between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. Beginning in 1857, t...
(Encyclopedia) Argall, Sir Samuel ärˈgəl [key], d. 1626?, English ship captain, prominent in the early settlement of Virginia. He commanded a ship sent to Jamestown in 1609 and had charge of one of the ships Baro...
(Encyclopedia) Warren, Gouverneur Kemble gəvərnērˈ [key], 1830–82, Union general in the American Civil War, b. Cold Spring, N.Y. An army engineer, he assisted in the survey of the Mississippi delta and also en...
(Encyclopedia) Spotswood, Alexander, 1676–1740, colonial governor of Virginia, b. Tangier, Morocco. Appointed in 1710, he was officially lieutenant governor under the nominal governorship of George Hamilton, 1st e...
(Encyclopedia) Geary, John White gērˈē [key], 1819–73, American politician and Union general in the Civil War, b. Mt. Pleasant, Pa. In San Francisco from 1849 to 1852, Geary was the first U.S. postmaster, the l...
(Encyclopedia) Meagher, Thomas Francis mär [key], 1823–67, Irish revolutionary and Union general in the American Civil War, b. Waterford, Ireland. A leader of the Young Ireland movement, he was arrested and conde...