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Photographer: Brandon D Cross
Taken: December 26, 2016
Caption: The Washington Place
Additional Description: One of the region's early landowners was Joseph Hernandez who was born in St. Augustine in 1788. In the early 1800s, he acquired several hundred acres here which became known as Mala Compra Plantation and Bella Vista. In 1845, his daughter Luisa married George Lawrence Washington, a distant relative of the first President of the United States. George practiced law and resided with Luisa and their family in St. Augustine. In the 1870s, George acquired some of the land from the Hernandez estate and constructed a hunting and fishing lodge, dug two artesian wells, planted citrus groves and built a dock on the river. The citrus crop was transported to St. Augustine by sailboat for distribution. George Washington's lodge overlooked the Matanzas River at this very site.
Submitted: April 3, 2017, by Brandon D Cross of Flagler Beach, Florida.
Database Locator Identification Number: p379136
File Size: 4.014 Megabytes

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