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A look inside Wall Street's Federal Hall, the site of George Washington's inauguration
With the latest presidential inauguration set to take place in Washington on Monday, Eyewitness News takes a look at where the first one took place: the heart of New York City, more than two centuries ...
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Inauguration history: What happened on the day George Washington became president in 1789
On the afternoon of April 30, 1789, George Washington was sworn in as the first ... Instead, Washington's inauguration was held in New York City. Before the inauguration, Washington traveled over 200 ...
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A Magnificent Portrait of George Washington Heads to Versailles for a Makeover
Peale's majestic portrait of founding father George Washington has headed to Versailles for a state-of-the-art restoration.
AOL13d
How a really bad winter delayed George Washington’s Inauguration Day by over a month
In doing so, they unanimously elected George Washington to be the first U.S. president. Upon hearing the news, Washington ...
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From the first to the 47th: Mount Vernon commemorates George Washington’s inauguration
George Washington took the oath of office as America’s first president on the balcony of Federal Hall in New York City.
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A Simple Brown Coat That Set the Tone for the U.S. Presidency
mid-thigh-length brown coat George Washington wore to his inauguration as the nation’s first president on April 30, 1789, at Federal Hall in Lower Manhattan. (At the time, New York was the ...