{"id":2055,"date":"2018-01-27T23:57:10","date_gmt":"2018-01-27T23:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/?p=2055"},"modified":"2018-06-01T02:15:06","modified_gmt":"2018-06-01T02:15:06","slug":"the-washington-family-homes-of-jefferson-county-west-virginia-next-in-the-lovettsville-historical-society-lecture-series-2-11-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/the-washington-family-homes-of-jefferson-county-west-virginia-next-in-the-lovettsville-historical-society-lecture-series-2-11-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: &#8220;The Washington Family Homes of Jefferson County, West Virginia,&#8221; Next In the Lovettsville Historical Society Lecture Series (2-11-2018)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8RReq24-hak\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1516624215773_1337539\" align=\"left\">\n<p>The Lovettsville Historical Society will open its 2018 lecture series on February 11, with a presentation by Walter Washington of Charles Town which will chronicle the migration of the Washington\u00a0family from the Virginia Tidewater to the Lower Shenandoah Valley.<\/p>\n<p>In 1750, eighteen year-old George Washington made his first real estate purchase of 500 acres in what is now Jefferson County, West Virginia, then part of Frederick County, Virginia. In 1770, his\u00a0brother Samuel moved to his new home there, called \u201cHarewood.\u201d Ten years later their younger brother Charles built his home called \u201cHappy Retreat,\u201d and in 1786 he founded Charles Town. Their\u00a0great nephews built the homes called \u201cBlakely\u201d and \u201cClaymont,\u201d and Samuel\u2019s grandson built \u201cCedar Lawn.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>All in all, the Washington family owned ten manors in Jefferson County, seven of which have survived to this day.\u00a0Today more Washington family descendants are buried in the Zion Episcopal\u00a0Church cemetery in Charles Town, than in any other place in the country.<\/p>\n<p>The February 11 event will also include background on the Washingtons in Loudoun County.<\/p>\n<p>Our presenter, Walter Washington, practices law in Charles Town, West Virginia. He received his undergraduate degree from Carleton College and his law degree from American University. He lives\u00a0at \u201cHarewood,\u201d the home built by his 5th\u00a0great grandfather Samuel Washington in 1770. Mr. Washington is also the president of Friends of Happy Retreat, the non-profit corporation that has\u00a0acquired and is restoring \u201cHappy Retreat,\u201d the 1780 home of Charles Washington.<\/p>\n<p>The program will be held at St. James United Church of Christ, 10 East Broad Way, Lovettsville, Va., at 2:00 p.m. Admission is free, but donations are welcome to defray expenses of the program\u00a0and to support the activities of the Lovettsville Historical Society.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lovettsville Historical Society will open its 2018 lecture series on February 11, with a presentation by Walter Washington of Charles Town which will chronicle the migration of the Washington\u00a0family&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2056,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lecture","category-press-release","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2055"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2424,"href":"https:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2055\/revisions\/2424"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}