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The museum and library are open to the public, who may tour the historic buildings, view exhibits, participate in educational programs and trace family histories. In addition to the museum and library, the five building complex, located in the Lancaster Courthouse Historic District, includes the Old Jail (1820), Clerk's Office (c. 1797 ...
Four of the buildings make up the Mary Ball Washington Museum and Library, founded in 1958, whose purpose is to preserve and interpret the history of Lancaster County, Virginia. [3] [4] The Lancaster Court House Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.
Mary Ball Washington House, 1200 Charles Street, Fredericksburg, by Frances Benjamin Johnston, 1927.The house was originally built in 1761 and has later additions. Mary Ball was born sometime between 1707 and 1709 at either Epping Forest, her family's plantation in Lancaster County, Virginia, [1] or at a plantation near the village of Simonson, Virginia. [2]
Jewish Museum (New York) Museum Mile Manhattan Jewish Modern and contemporary Jewish art and history Jewish Theological Seminary: Upper West Side Manhattan Jewish website, free exhibitions from the library's collections of Jewish heritage Living Torah Museum: Borough Park: Brooklyn Jewish
National Mary Washington Memorial Association (NMWMA) is a hereditary American woman's organization created in Washington, D.C. in 1889, to support in perpetuity the monument to Mary Ball Washington located at Fredericksburg, Virginia. It is the second chartered historical and patriotic society among women in the United States.
Craigan Paul Shirley [1] [2] (born September 24, 1956) is an American political consultant and author of several books on Ronald Reagan [3] as well as Mary Ball Washington: The Untold Story of George Washington's Mother, a biography about George Washington’s mother, was released in December of 2019.
The Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO) is a non-profit organization that specializes in providing research, programming, and organizational tools for libraries, archives, and museums in the New York metropolitan area. The council was founded in 1964 under the Education Law of the State of New York.
The Mary Washington House, at 1200 Charles Street in Fredericksburg, Virginia, is the house in which George Washington's mother, Mary Ball Washington, resided towards the end of her life. It is now operated as an 18th-century period historic house museum , one of several museums in Fredericksburg operated by Washington Heritage Museums.