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Date published: 9/5/2002

OurAMERICA  | Westmoreland

Our America is a land of spirit and resolve. In the week leading up to the anniversary of 9/11, Free Lance–Star photographers are spending a day in each community capturing the faces and places that are the essence of a nation. Tomorrow: Stafford

AMERICA’S ROOTS run deep in Westmoreland County’s soil. George Washington was born there, as was James Monroe.

The first president’s birthplace is a point of pride in this Northern Neck county—as is the home of the Lee family—which includes the only two brothers to sign the Declaration of Independence and Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.

The Potomac River, the Colonial equivalent of Interstate 95, was the thoroughfare that made Westmoreland an 18th-century political power. Its waters and the fertile fields stretching from its shore westward to the Rappahannock River provided a living for the fathers of our Founding Fathers.

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Date published: 9/5/2002