by Christopher Muldrow | Nov 29, 2021
The St. James’ House was built around 1768 and is one of the few eighteenth-century frame houses still standing in Fredericksburg. The house was originally home to James Mercer, an attorney, a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses, first judge of the General...
by Christopher Muldrow | Nov 29, 2021
This eighteenth-century building was restored to house the Hugh Mercer Apothecary Shop, a museum of medicine, pharmacy, and military and political affairs. Dr. Mercer served the citizens of Fredericksburg with medicines and treatments of the eighteenth century....
by Christopher Muldrow | Nov 29, 2021
In 1772, George Washington purchased a house from Michael Robinson in Fredericksburg, Virginia for his mother. Mary Ball Washington spent her last seventeen years in this comfortable home. The white frame house sits on the corner of Charles and Lewis Streets and is in...
by Christopher Muldrow | Nov 29, 2021
The Fredericksburg Area Museum is a cultural and educational hub located in downtown Fredericksburg, VA, housed in an historic Town Hall/Market House from the nineteenth century. The foundation of the FAM’s programs and events, exhibitions, and educational...
by Christopher Muldrow | Nov 29, 2021
The James Monroe Museum, located in historic downtown Fredericksburg, Virginia at the old site of James Monroe’s Original Law Office, is the largest repository in the country for artifacts and documents related to the fifth president of the United States. The...
