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276 years later, fight erupts over George Washington’s cherry tree cutting

By Paul Bedard
Published March 18, 2014 4:00am ET
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276 years later, fight erupts over George Washington’s cherry tree cutting
A battle over whether young George Washington really hacked at cherry tree with an ax has broken out between Washington’s great-nephew and the keepers of the first president’s history, the Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association that operates the family estate on the Potomac River. In a new book and interview about Washington’s youth, great-nephew Austin Washington […]

A battle over whether young George Washington really hacked at cherry tree with an ax has broken out between Washington’s great-nephew and the keepers of the first president’s history, the Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association that operates the family estate on the Potomac River.

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