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Happy 293rd Birthday to the Father of our Country.

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Did you know that....
George Washington visited the area now known as McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania on October 20, 1770, during which he considered the location as a potential site for Fort Pitt, and even dined at the "mansion" (it had 8 rooms, a substantial dwelling at the time) of Alexander McKee, the local Indian agent and trader who the area is named after, as documented in Washington's personal journal.
Note: There is no truth to the rumor that TheGLOV was present at the Washington/McKee dinner. GLOV personally told me that he was off hunting bear in Tennessee at that time with Davy Crockett.;)
 
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fairgambit said:
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Did you know that....
George Washington visited the area now known as McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania on October 20, 1770, during which he considered the location as a potential site for Fort Pitt, and even dined at the "mansion" (it had 8 rooms, a substantial dwelling at the time) of Alexander McKee, the local Indian agent and trader who the area is named after, as documented in Washington's personal journal.
Note: There is no truth to the rumor that TheGLOV was present at the Washington/McKee dinner. GLOV personally told me that he was off hunting bear in Tennessee at that time with Davy Crockett.;)
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I think today he would be called a non-inseminated person, rather than father of our country.
 
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He is the man. Happy birthday Washington. Anyone watch that hit piece investigation series on history channel on Jefferson. Dear lord.
 
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I watched something on the history channel that said Washington hated being President and couldn’t wait for it to be over. He wanted to be general of the army and nothing more.
 
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I watched something on the history channel that said Washington hated being President and couldn’t wait for it to be over. He wanted to be general of the army and nothing more.
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It actually goes a little bit further. Washington was immensely popular and literally could have been President for Life. He chose not to run for re-election not only because he did not like many of the trappings and adulations that came with the office, but also because he rejected the so-called European Model for choosing a nation's leader which more likely was in the form of a king or some form of royalty. Washington wanted to set a different course for the new democracy here in the United States.
 
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I'm glad your still here fair, to share those iconic pieces of ancient history, we would all miss without the indoctrination of gambit enterprises.
 
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fairgambit said:
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George Washington visited the area now known as McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania on October 20, 1770, during which he considered the location as a potential site for Fort Pitt, and even dined at the "mansion" (it had 8 rooms, a substantial dwelling at the time) of Alexander McKee, the local Indian agent and trader who the area is named after, as documented in Washington's personal journal.
Note: There is no truth to the rumor that TheGLOV was present at the Washington/McKee dinner. GLOV personally told me that he was off hunting bear in Tennessee at that time with Davy Crockett.;)
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It looks like Washington owned a fair amount of land in Western PA at one time.

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@fairgambit, you might enjoy this.

On Saturday (GW's birthday), I was with a small group of Rev War historians and enthusiasts. We spent @ 6 hours going over the grounds of Monmouth Battlefield State Park, which covers a good bit (not all) of where the Battle of Monmouth took place in 1778. (It's located between Freehold and Englishtown, NJ.)

We were debating several aspects of the battle. And we're pretty convinced, based on recent research, that the park signs designating where GW and Gen. Lee met during the battle, are not in the correct location.

We had parked in one parking lot near the start of our touring, and condensed into fewer cars as some of the places we planned to see had pretty small parking spots.

At the end of the adventure, before we thanked each other for another successful outing, and then said our goodbyes, a member of the group went to their car, and came back with a bunch of cupcakes. As it was GW's birthday, and Monmouth was one of his best battles in the American Revolution, we saluted him before dusting off the cupcakes.
 
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Tom McAndrew said:
@fairgambit, you might enjoy this.

On Saturday (GW's birthday), I was with a small group of Rev War historians and enthusiasts. We spent @ 6 hours going over the grounds of Monmouth Battlefield State Park, which covers a good bit (not all) of where the Battle of Monmouth took place in 1778. (It's located between Freehold and Englishtown, NJ.)

We were debating several aspects of the battle. And we're pretty convinced, based on recent research, that the park signs designating where GW and Gen. Lee met during the battle, are not in the correct location.

We had parked in one parking lot near the start of our touring, and condensed into fewer cars as some of the places we planned to see had pretty small parking spots.

At the end of the adventure, before we thanked each other for another successful outing, and then said our goodbyes, a member of the group went to their car, and came back with a bunch of cupcakes. As it was GW's birthday, and Monmouth was one of his best battles in the American Revolution, we saluted him before dusting off the cupcakes.
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Hopefully the cupcakes were homemade, but if they were commercial, l would expect, in the spirit of the Revolution, that they were the Dolly [sic] Madison brand. ;)

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STPGopherfan said:
Was that where Ona Judge escaped from? Some day I'll actually have to read the book about her.
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I don't think so. I read the book that Erica Dunbar wrote when it came out in 2017 (Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge). I'm going from memory (a lot on my plate today, or I'd look it up), but I'm pretty sure Ona escaped from Philadelphia.
 
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Tom McAndrew said:
I don't think so. I read the book that Erica Dunbar wrote when it came out in 2017 (Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge). I'm going from memory (a lot on my plate today, or I'd look it up), but I'm pretty sure Ona escaped from Philadelphia.
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Thanks Tom! Repeating myself a book I've wanted to read for some time, but never did. The complexity of history is often fascinating.
 
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