where did george washington live

George Washington spent most of his adult life at his plantation home, Mount Vernon in Virginia, which is the place most people mean when they ask where he lived. He also lived in several official residences while serving as commander in the Revolutionary War and as the first U.S. president.

Main home: Mount Vernon

• Mount Vernon is located on the Potomac River in Fairfax County, Virginia, just south of present‑day Washington, D.C.

• Washington began managing the estate in 1754 and became its sole owner in 1761, expanding the original house into a 21‑room mansion over several decades.

Early life homes

• Washington was born on his father’s plantation at Pope’s Creek in Westmoreland County, Virginia, sometimes called his “birthplace plantation.”

• He spent much of his youth at Ferry Farm on the Rappahannock River near Fredericksburg, Virginia, after his family moved there.

Where he lived during the Revolution

• While commanding the Continental Army, Washington used the Vassall‑Craigie house in Cambridge, Massachusetts, as his headquarters and home from July 1775 to April 1776.

• He moved with the army and stayed in many temporary headquarters across the colonies, but these were military lodgings rather than permanent homes.

Where he lived as president

• When New York City was the first U.S. capital, Washington lived in the Samuel Osgood House (1789–1790), the first official presidential residence.

• He then moved to the larger Alexander Macomb House in New York (1790) before the capital shifted to Philadelphia, where he also lived in an official presidential residence (the President’s House on Market Street).*

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