DID LOUIS XVI. OF FRANCE PRESENT A RUG TO GEORGE WASHINGTON? By William Frederic Worner. At a meeting of the Lancaster County Historical Society held in April, 1908, a booklet was received entitled: "An Illustrated Handbook of Mount Vernon; the Home of Washington," issued by the Mount Vernon Ladies

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