"Washington was born about three hundred yards from Pope's Creek (which runs easterly), half a mile from its entrance to the Potomac river, Westmoreland County, Virginia, in that district of the State designated the Northern Neck.
This memorable spot is thirty-six miles from Fredericksburg, fifty-nine from the mouth of Rappahannock river, eighty miles from Washington city, and sixty-six miles from Mount Vernon.
The name of the plantation where he was born is called Wakefield.
