On This Day 250 Years Ago
March 12, 1775
On this Sunday, Washington travels roughly an hour and a half to attend Pohick Church. Back at Mount Vernon, he meets with Maryland politician John Hoskins Stone who pays Washington £300 for 3,000 bushels of corn. A pioneering farmer for much of his life, Washington experimented with a variety of crops at Mount Vernon.
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