National Historic Landmark · Fredericksburg, Virginia

Washington, George, Boyhood Home Site

Added to the National Register in 2000, and a National Historic Landmark.

The record

Property typeSite
Address237 King's Highway, Fredericksburg, VA
CountyStafford County
ListedFeb 16, 2000
Listed forHistorical archaeology, Exploration and settlement
Level of significanceNational
Also known asFerry Farm
Reference number00000259

The nomination form, the document that argues why this place matters, is in the National Archives: Read the nomination ↗

Visiting

Address237 King's Highway, Fredericksburg, VA
Also in Fredericksburg15 listed places in Fredericksburg →
Listing on the Register does not open the door. Unless a museum or park runs it, treat this as private property and see it from the sidewalk.
Limited data for this unit

No photograph, no construction date, no encyclopedia article or coordinates for this listing yet. The Register record above is complete; the enrichment is not.

The NPS spatial layer is re-read every Saturday, and Wikidata on the first Saturday of each month.

Explore

Local history books for Fredericksburg

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Guidebooks to historic places in Virginia

  • Historical Tours Alexandria, Virginia
    Frederick Knops, 2017
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  • Plantations of Virginia
    Charlene C. Giannetti and Jai Williams, 2017
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  • George Washington's Virginia
    John R. Maass, 2017
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  • Historic Sites in Virginia's Northern Neck and Essex County
    Thomas A. Wolf, 2011
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Titles come from Open Library's catalog, matched by subject heading or by title.

Reference

Questions people ask

When was Washington, George, Boyhood Home Site listed on the National Register?

Feb 16, 2000. It is also a National Historic Landmark, the higher of the two designations.

Source: National Park Service

Where is Washington, George, Boyhood Home Site?

237 King's Highway, Fredericksburg, Stafford County, Virginia.

Source: National Park Service

Where is the nomination form for Washington, George, Boyhood Home Site?

The National Archives holds the nomination form, the document that made the case for listing.

Source: National Archives

Sources

Name, location, type and dates come from the National Register office's spreadsheet of listed properties, because the Park Service's spatial data does not carry this listing. No source has a map point for it. Construction date, architect, style, photograph and encyclopedia link come from Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons, matched on reference number 00000259. Nothing here is transcribed by hand. The nomination form and photographs ↗ at NPGallery are the original nomination as filed with the National Park Service, and the form is often the best description of the place.