George Washington House — Attraction in Barbados

St. Ann's Garrison, or more commonly known as "The Garrison", is a small district located in the country of Barbados. This Garrison Historic Area is situated about 3.2 km (2 mi) south of Heroes Square in the capital-city Bridgetown, and just west of the village of Hastings in the neighbouring parish of Christ Church. It is dominated by its historic horse race-track, located on the 12 ha (30-acre) parade ground called the Garrison Savannah. The Garrison area additionally contains many historic buildings including barracks for military personnel. The district is bisected by Highway 7, with Saint Ann's Fort, where the Barbados Defence Force (BDF) is based, lying to the west.

During both the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries the Garrison was the base and headquarters for members of the British West India Regiment in Barbados. In 1751, the future leader of the American Revolution and first president of the United States, George Washington, stayed with his sick brother at the district's Bush Hill section for six weeks. This restored property remains as a fixture at the Garrison where it is simply called the 'George Washington House'. By the middle of the eighteenth century, wealthy prominent Barbadians and regiment troops started the sporting tradition of horse racing at the Garrison racetrack.

On 30 November 1966 the Garrison Historic Area was the location where the ceremony was held for the lowering of the Union Flag (the flag of the United Kingdom), and the raising of the Barbados flag, thus ushering in full independence for the country of Barbados from the United Kingdom.

There are a number of historically significant buildings at the location, other than George Washington House. Many of these housed the Regiment units of the British Garrison, including the building that houses the Barbados Museum and surrounding buildings. Evidence of this includes prison cells of the former Garrison.

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am. just let me say I have been to it is fun and intresting. infact I can tell u a bit about it. there is a panio room and the house has in a table so long it would take 5yrs to build and paint maybe. in the kicthen it is just buckets a fire place and sticks and so on.the bedroom in one of them lay a chest with some type of sheep sink or something on. i didn't get to look In it I was taking pics . am it has those window that if u dont want to pull down your blinds u can just shut the window but air will still come through.note everything that maybe removable it glued to the ground or something.like there is a bowl on top of the panio and the chest is stick down to. am. oh my I almost forgot the bathroom. it is not like our bathroom today there is no shower pipe but the were rusty old buckets in there. oh rule712 by washington never eat and have your eating tools in your hand.in the I cant remeber what room there is an old feather in a little container with dryed out ink. so I think that's it...

Unfortunately, we didn't enjoy the tour. It was dragging and boring. Prepare yourself that you have to wait for other people and guides to be able to complete the whole tour. You cannot do it on your own. First there was a short film, we didn't see it, so we cannot comment. We had to wait for the people to come out and we were taken to see the tunnel with another guide. He gave us a very uninteresting speech for about 15 minutes beforehand but the tunnel itself was only about 20 meter long and we finished it in 2 minutes. The tunnel itself is much longer and more complex but the rest of it is sectioned off and closed for public. There came the next bit to see the house upstairs, there is a museum, you can do that bit by yourself. That was alright. Then another tour guide, a long boring talk to listen to again, slowly moving through downstairs in the house. That was when we sneaked out, unfortunately we just couldn't do it although we...