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Washington's southern tour, which began on 9 Apr. 1791, was a journey that George Washington had been contemplating since before his inauguration as president of the United States.
- How Did You Become Interested in Washington’s 1791 Presidential Journey?
- What Motivated President Washington to Take This Trip?
- Tell Us More About How Washington traveled. Did Others Travel with him?
- Was There Any Specific Thinking Behind Washington’s Chosen route?
- Did Washington Face Any Significant Obstacles on His Journey?
- Charleston Was One of Washington’s Chief destinations. Tell Us About His visit.
- Are There Any Stories from This Journey That You Find Especially interesting?
- About Warren L. Bingham
I first learned of George Washington’s 1791 presidential journey in a college history class. The journey has been on my mind ever since! This particular trip was the Southern Tour, a long trip in both time and distance and the last of President Washington’s trips to visit the original thirteen states. The Southern Tour took Washington on a formal v...
President Washington felt that his appearance throughout the states would go far towards uniting the country. In an era when most citizens of the United States had no real sense of “being” American, George Washington was the common denominator. The president was quite popular with most Americans, even if aspects of the new federal government and th...
By the time of the Southern Tour, the president had completed formal trips through the middle states and New England. He traveled in similar style on all of these trips. Washington departed on the Southern Tour from Philadelphia on March 21, 1791 with attendants from the staff of his Philadelphia house and with a presidential secretary, William Jac...
Washington wanted a representative tour through Virginia, the Carolinas and Georgia, visiting the larger towns and state capitals if possible. He definitely wanted to visit Charleston, South Carolina, the fourth largest city in the United States with a population exceeding 16,000. And, he surely wanted to get in at least one visit to Mount Vernon. ...
The Southern Tour of 1791 was the final journey to satisfy Washington’s desire to visit all of the states—and it was the toughest journey. The Southern Tour featured longer distances over bad roads, many undesirable inns, and plenty of recalcitrant citizens who weren’t fans of the new federal government. In North Carolina, leading Anti-Federalist W...
Washington and probably the entire travelling party enjoyed the one-week visit to Charleston. The City rented and provided a staffed townhome on Church Street for the president’s use. After weeks on the road, the Charleston stop was welcome relief for the travelers. Hosted by the state’s leading citizens, including Governor Charles Pinckney, Washin...
The mere physical success of the Southern Tour fascinates me. My mind’s eye is excited by the images of that small group of men, many in bright red livery, making their way through the tall pine forests of North Carolina or through the dense vegetation and Palmetto trees of coastal South Carolina, or arriving in a tiny Charlotte where just a few bu...
Warren L. Bingham is a speaker, broadcaster, writer, and the author of George Washington’s 1791 Southern Tour from The History Press. Bingham is the creator of Carolina Color, radio vignettes offering a historical perspective on North Carolina people, places, products, and events. A student of Washington’s Southern Tour for over 20 years, Bingham’s...
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Jan 29, 2016 · Between 1908 and 1912, Booker T. Washington embarked upon a series of "educational pilgrimages" across several Southern states. In the fall of 1910, Washington and a phalanx of businessmen and A.M.E. Zion clergymen set off on an arc across North Carolina, making speeches and setting examples in Charlotte, Concord, Salisbury, High Point, Winston ...
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Cross over into North Carolina to Little Washington, a quaint coastal town with a beautiful waterfront area that is a popular Inner Banks stop for sailors and power boats. Take a walking tour of the historic downtown district, founded in 1776 and named after General George Washington, the first U.S. president.
On December 18, 1777, the Washington District was renamed to Washington County. It was not until 1779/1780 when the NC/VA State Line was finally surveyed. North Carolina's Washington County was now directly opposite of Virginia's Washington County.
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