Like Trump, George Washington was a businessman with a large real ... a precursor to the builders of the Chesapeake and Ohio ...
Feb. 22, 1732 George Washington is born in a modest house at ... disorganized gaggle of New England militiamen, most hardscrabble farmers and small-time merchants, holding the British army at ...
Above all, Washington was a farmer. On his Mount Vernon estate, in northern Virginia, he grew tobacco and wheat and operated a gristmill. After his second term as president, he built a profitable ...