Honoring George Washington: The Washington Elm on the State Capitol Campus
Washington is the only American state named after a president. It is named for George Washington (1732-1799), the Revolutionary War leader who served as A less noticed memorial to George Washington stands across from the Helen Sommers building near Capitol Way: an elm tree planted in 1932, on the bicentennial of the leader’s birth.
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