Fredericksburg, Virginia. Boyhood home of George Washington. 

Home of Mary Washington (his mother) and the Kenmore Plantation 
(George's sister & Fielding Lewis, her husband). 

The home of the James Monroe Law Office (President, Monroe Doctrine, 
Manifest Destiny, etc).

The home of Hugh Mercer (Apothecary Shoppe and Revolutionary War hero). 

The city where where the constitutional milestone of separation of 
church and state doctrine by Thomas Jefferson started after a church 
missionary from Spotsylvania was jailed for preaching the gospel in 
the streets of Fredericksburg in the 1760's. Thomas Jefferson used that 
incident to help enact the "Religious Freedoms Act" by the House of Burgess 
in Williamsburg. This was to become part of the foundation in the 
Declaration of Independence as drafted in Phildelphia in the summer of 1776.

Up the road from Stratford Hall, home of the Lee family (Robert E. Lee
and "Lighthorse Henry" Lee). 

Home of the first Masonic Lodge in the United States. 

During "War Between the States" (there was nothing civil about it),
two sieges during "Battle of Fredericksburg" 1862 & 1863; 
home of the first "Z trenches"; the "Battle of Chancellorsville"; 
the "Bloody Angle"; the site of Stonewall Jackson's accidental wounding
by his own troops and his subsequent death; the "Wilderness Campaign"; 
and the "Battle of Spotsylvania Courthouse". 

Just north of Caroline County where John Wilkes Booth was captured after
he assassinated President Abraham Lincoln. 

All here in little ol' Fredericksburg!