No city in the United States has a closer association with George Washington than Alexandria, Virginia, which is known as his adopted home town.
As a young surveyor of 17 years old, he drew a map of the town’s original lots offered for sale in 1749.
He drilled militia troops here before the American Revolution.
He sold produce from Mount Vernon on Market Square.
He voted here, and attended court proceedings at the Alexandria courthouse as Fairfax County Justice of the Peace.
He chaired the 1774 Committee that drafted the Fairfax Resolves, approved at the Courthouse on Market Square, which became the basis for the Bill of Rights in the U.S. Constitution.
He attended church at Alexandria’s Christ Church and Pohick Church.
He was celebrated by his fellow Alexandrians at Duvall Tavern (now Duvall House, an Airbnb) when he returned from the Revolutionary War in 1783.
He was celebrated by his friends and colleagues in Alexandria when he left to be inaugurated as first President of the United States in 1789.
Banquets were held in his honor at Gadsby’s Tavern during his Presidency and when he returned home at the end of his Presidency in 1797.
He regularly dined in Alexandria taverns, and attended Birthnight Balls held in his honor at Wise’s Tavern and Gadsby’s Tavern.
He regularly visited, dined with, and stayed at the homes of many of his closest friends and colleagues who lived in Alexandria.
He even had a townhouse here, a replica of which today is a historic landmark and Airbnb.