George Washington: Farmer by Paul Leland Haworth (1876-1936) Ch 1 A Man In Love with the Soil
cHAPTER I A MAN IN LOVE WITH THE SOIL ONE December day in the year 1788 a Virginia gentleman sat before his desk in his mansion beside the Potomac writing…
George Washington: Farmer Paul Leland Haworth (1876-1936) Ch 2 Building An Estate
BUILDING AN ESTATE Augustine Washington was a planter who owned thousands of acres of land, most of it unimproved, besides an interest in some small iron works, but he had…
George Washington: Farmer Paul Leland Haworth (1876-1936) Ch 3 VirgInia Agriculture in Washinton's Day
VIRGINIA AGRICULTURE IN WASHINGTON’S DAY The Virginia of George Washington’s youth and early manhood was an imperial domain reaching from Atlantic tidewater through a thousand leagues of forests, prairies and…
George Washington: Farmer Paul Leland Haworth (1876-1936) Ch 4 Washington's Problem
Washington’s Problem “No estate in United America,” wrote Washington to Arthur Young in 1793, “is more pleasantly situated than this. It lies in a high, dry, and healthy country, 300…
George Washington: Farmer Paul Leland Haworth (1876-1936) Ch 5 The Student of Agriculture
THE STUDENT OF AGRICULTURE Washington took great pains to inform himself concerning any subject in which he was interested and hardly was he settled down to serious farming before he…
George Washington: Farmer Paul Leland Haworth (1876-1936) Ch 6 A Farmer's Records & Other Papers
Washington as Farmer at Mount Vernon, 1851, Junius Brutus Stearns. A Farmer’s Records And Other Papers Washington was the most methodical man that ever lived. He had a place for…
Halloween story – the shop
This year’s Halloween post has been sent to us by Blanka Azdajic, Acting Head of Visitations at the Institute of Hermetic Research. It originated with one of the researchers who…