Mothers of Our Country This is George Washington's mother as she looked when she became the bride of a middle-aged Virginia tobacco planter.  This web site is dedicated to her and to the five Eltonhead sisters who sailed to America together from Liverpool in 1648 to become the brides of other middle-aged tobacco planters and ancestors of millions of present day Americans.   -- Joyce O'Connor

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Northumberland House harbor on the Northern Neck of Virginia where tobacco was loaded -- until the American Revolution -- on ships headed for London.

Click on picture of Williamsburg of 1776 to see what George Washington looked like when he won the siege at nearby Yorktown and England decided to let the American colonies be independent.

Find out about the 19th century Queen of Chicago society.  Click on photo of Bertha Honore Palmer, president of the board of lady managers at the 1893 Columbian Expo.

Shopping on Chicago's State Street in 1910