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George Washington was a farmer. Agriculture was his primary source of income and farming was George Washington's true passion.
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What is George Washington hometown?
His plantation home of Mt. Vernon, VA has its own zip code ( 22121) and I guess could be called a hometown. He did not grow up in a town.
Who did George Washington look up to as a child?
George Washington looked up to his father and also to Ben Franklin.
Where was George Washington's home in Virginia?
Ferry Farm is the boyhood home of George Washington. Augustine Washington moved his family to this property in 1738, when his son, George, was six years old. George received his formal education during his years here, and forged friendships in the neighborhood that lasted the rest of his life. In 1754, George moved to Mount Vernon while his mother, Mary Ball Washington, stayed on at the farm until 1772, when she moved to Fredericksburg.* http://www.kenmore.org/ferryfarm_homepage.html
What did George Washington do when he was young?
George Washington grew up on a farm, he looked up to his brother Lawrence who fought in the army. As a teen his job was to survey land for Lord Fairfax of Virginia, and then he moved to Barbados with his half-brother Lawrence before Lawrence died
What was George Washington myth?
The George Washington myth was a story that Parson Locke Weems made up portraying how honest George Washington was. The story involved George chopping down his father's cherry tree as a young boy, his father asks him if he chopped the cherry tree down and George tells him that he "cannot tell a lie."
