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Green discussed a 1753 map of Virginia by Joshua Fry and Peter Jefferson, Thomas Jefferson’s father. It shows the Potomac River north of today’s Prince William County to today’s Theodore Roosevelt Island (Mason’s Island) and Maryland creeks.

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Maps Tell Stories of the Past

People have been making maps of the Mount Vernon area for four centuries and maps convey more than pictures,” Kevin Green began as he...

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