8/29/15 - Milford, VA

Today we stopped at a historical road sign that told about the house where James Madison was born.  It is no longer there.  We drove to George Washington’s birthplace.  His birthplace house is no longer there.  The park service has built a colonial home and has made a working farm there.  The original house site is outlined with stone so you can see the floor plan.  There is also a 1/10 scale version of the Washington Monument in D.C.  Down the road is the Washington family cemetery.  George Washington’s grandfather and father are buried there.  They used to be in separate graves and in 1930 they were dug up and then reentered into one grave.  

I read that Maggie L. Walker National Historic Site in Richmond wasn’t open on Monday and Tuesday so we drove there to take a tour.  Maggie L. Walker was an African American educator and businesswoman.  She was the first female bank president to charter a bank in the U.S.  We went on a tour of her house and then we went to Richmond Battlefield Visitor’s center that is in the old Tredegar Iron Works ruins.  This plant manufactured trains, cannons, and ammunition for the south  during the civil war.  We watched a movie and looked at the exhibits.  We stopped at Legend Brewing before returning to the Casita.