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The city of Fredericksburg has close associations with George Washington, whose family moved to Ferry Farm on the Rappahannock opposite Fredericksburg in seventeen thirty-eight. Washington's mother Mary later moved to the city and his sister Betty lived at Kenmore, a plantation house then outside the city. Other significant early residents include the Revolutionary War generals Hugh Mercer and George Weedon, naval war hero John Paul Jones, and future U.S. president James Monroe. During the nineteenth century Fredericksburg sought to maintain its sphere of trade but with limited success, promoting the development of a canal on the Rappahannock and construction of a turnpike and plank road to bind the interior country to the market town. By eighteen thirty-seven, a north-south railroad, which became the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad, linked the town to Richmond, the state capital, but a much-needed railroad joining the town to the farming region to the west remained unfinished until after the Civil War. Other historic buildings and museums include the late eighteenth century Rising Sun Tavern, Hugh Mercer apothecary shop, and the James Monroe law office museum. Significant public buildings include the eighteen fifty-two courthouse designed by James Fenwick, whose works include the Smithsonian Institution’s castle building in Washington and St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City, and the eighteen sixteen town hall and market house. The latter building now houses a local history museum and cultural center. There were eight thousand, one hundred two households out of which twenty-two percent had children under the age of eighteen living with them, thirty-two percent were married couples living together, thirteen percent had a female householder with no husband present, and fifty-two percent were non-families. Thirty-nine percent of all households were made up of individuals and thirteen percent had someone living alone who is sixty-five years of age or older.
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