GEORGE WASHINGTON BIRTHPLACE A Master Plan for George Washington Birthplace National Monument, Virginia

COVER

INTRODUCTION

SUMMARY of OBJECTIVES

THE NORTHERN NECK

A RESOURCE INVENTORY

THE PLAN FOR THE NATIONAL MONUMENT
   RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
   VISITOR USE
   ADMINISTRATION

Photographs by Ross Chapple

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THOMAS JEFFERSON ON GEORGE WASHINGTON

"His integrity was most pure, his injustice the most inflexible I have ever known, no motives . . . of friendship or hatred being able to bias his decision. He was, indeed, in every sense of the words, a wise, a good, and a great man. . . . His heart was not warm in its affections; but he exactly calculated every man's value and gave him a solid esteem proportioned to it . . . Although in the circle of friends . . . he took a free share in conversation, his colloquial talents were not above mediocrity, possessing neither copiousness of ideas, not fluency of words . . . Yet he wrote readily, rather diffusely, in an easy and correct style . . . On the whole, his character was, in its mass, perfect, in nothing bad, in few points indifferent; and it may truly be said, that never did nature and fortune combine more perfectly to make a man great, and to place him in the same constellation with whatever worthies have merited from man an everlasting remembrance. For his was the singular destiny and merit, of establishment of its independence; of conducting its councils through the birth of a government, new in its forms and principles, until it had settled down into a quiet and orderly train; and of scrupulously obeying the laws through the whole of his career, civil and military, of which the history of the world furnishes no other example . . ."

[1814]

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Portrait of Charles Willson Peale

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The Department of the Interior—the Nation's principal natural resource agency—works to assure that our expendable resources are conserved, that our renewable resources are managed to produce optimum benefits, and that all resources contribute to the progress and prosperity of the United States, now and in the future.

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