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Washington has important historic links to the Washington family who would ultimately produce the first President of USA. The family is named from the town.
Washington, town in Sunderland metropolitan borough, metropolitan county of Tyne and Wear, historic county of Durham, northeastern England. It lies along the north side of the River Wear below Chester-le-Street. The site was an area of early coal mining and industrial activity and was associated.
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Apr 10, 2022 · Life in Washington Village. Bridging the gap between Newcastle and Sunderland is the wonderful Washington Village - which is home to a complete mass of antiquity and archives from past days. A...
NOTABLE DATES IN THE HISTORY OF WASHINGTON- based on the work of the Washington Historical Group 1975. PREHISTORIC. The skull of an Anthracosaurus, a 12ft. amphibian from 310 million years ago, dug out at Usworth Colliery, 1966. 9600 to 4300 B.C. Middle Stone Age site found at Shaddons Hill in 1925. 4300-to 2000 B.C.
Its name – first recorded in 947 AD – means, in Old English, ‘Homestead of Wassa’s people’; there is of course another Washington in N.-E. England, whence George Washington’s name, and that of the capital of the USA, comes (though Kipling, in his story ‘They’, wrongly attributes these to Sussex!).
Washington is a town in the City of Sunderland district of Tyne and Wear, England. Historically part of County Durham , it is the ancestral settlement of the local Washington family , from which the first President of the United States George Washington descended.
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Washington Old Hall is a historic manor house in Washington, Tyne and Wear, England. It lies in the centre of Washington, being surrounded by other villages. The building was the ancestral home of the family of George Washington (1732–1799), the first president of the United States.
