A wooden cross for each of the ... firmly in the ground near the Potomac River. The makeshift memorial was being constructed Friday morning off of the George Washington Memorial Parkway to ...

George Washington served as the first president ... A woman named Louisa Bird Cunningham passed the property while traveling down the Potomac River one night in 1853 and was dismayed by its ...

George Washington did help build the capital. In July 1790, Congress passed the Residence Act which called for the permanent capital of the U.S. to be located on the Potomac River. The city was ...