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Little Hunting Creek

Fairfax County · 4.5 miles south of Alexandria. · location approximate

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Margaret Brent, secretary to Lord Baltimore, the first woman in America to demand a vote, patented land here in 1663. Augustine Washington lived here from 1734 to 1739, and here George Washington passed most of his infancy.

1948 text, presented as a historical document.

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

Marker data: Virginia Department of Conservation and Development, State Historical Markers of Virginia, 6th ed. (1948)

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