Devon wrote:
<The Potomac River is known in popular lore for having had a coin thrown
<across it by our first President George Washington, after which Washington
is
<named. This never happened, along with the other famous thing that
<Washington didn't do, which was to chop down his father's cherry tree.
If he had thrown a dollar, it would have been from his childhood home on the
Rappahannock River across from Fredericksburg, Virginia, not from his last
home, Mount Vernon, in Alexandria Virginia on the Potomac.
When I was in college in Fredericksburg, a dollar throwing competition was
held each year on Washington's birthday.
Mostly teen age boys would stand on river bank at Ferry Farm and throw
silver dollars across the river. I stood near Water Street over 50 feet
from bank and some of the coins almost hit me.
There was also a stump of a cherry tree on Ferry Farm, but they disclaimed
that story, too. ;-)
Louise in Central Virginia
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