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==Culture and recreation== ===Architecture and historic sites{{Anchor|Fredericksburg Historic District}}=== {{see also|National Register of Historic Places listings in Fredericksburg, Virginia}} {{Infobox NRHP | name = Fredericksburg Historic District | nrhp_type = hd | nocat = yes | designated_other1 = Virginia Landmarks Register | designated_other1_date = March 2, 1971<ref name=register>{{cite web|title=Virginia Landmarks Register|url=http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/register_counties_cities.htm|publisher=Virginia Department of Historic Resources|access-date=March 19, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130921053819/http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/register_counties_cities.htm|archive-date=September 21, 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref> | designated_other1_number = 111-0132 | designated_other1_num_position = bottom | image = Presbyterian church fredericksburg VA.jpg | caption = | location= Roughly bounded by Rappahannock River, Hazel Run, Prince Edward and Canal Sts., <br />Fredericksburg, Virginia | added = September 22, 1971 | area = {{convert|200|acre}} | governing_body = | refnum = 71001053<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2010a|refnum=71001053|dateform=mdy}}</ref> }} [[File:Fredericksburg, VA, Museum IMG 4007.JPG|left|thumb|upright=1.1|Fredericksburg Museum]] [[Image:St. George's Episcopal Ch., Fredericksburg, VA IMG 4008.JPG|thumb|upright=1.1|St. George's [[Episcopal Church in the United States|Episcopal Church]] in downtown Fredericksburg was established in 1720.]] [[File:Kenmore Plantation 2006.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.1|Kenmore Plantation]] Despite recent decades of suburban growth, reminders of the area's past abound. The 40-block '''Fredericksburg Historic District''', listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]], embraces the city's downtown area and contains more than 350 buildings and locations dating to the 18th and 19th centuries, including the [[Fredericksburg Town Hall and Market Square]], [[Lewis Store]], and former site of the [[Slave Auction Block, Fredericksburg|Slave Auction Block]]. Within the historic district, four 18th-century historic sites have been managed by the "Washington Heritage Museums": the [[Mary Washington House]], where [[Mary Ball Washington|George Washington's mother]] lived in her final years; the late 18th-century [[Rising Sun Tavern (Fredericksburg, Virginia)|Rising Sun Tavern]], and the [[Hugh Mercer Apothecary|Hugh Mercer Apothecary Shop]] (the fourth, the St. James House (built 1768), is open to the public only during [[Historic Garden Week]]). Important public buildings include the 1852 courthouse designed by [[James Renwick Jr.|James Renwick]], whose works include the [[Smithsonian Institution]]'s castle building in Washington and [[St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York|St. Patrick's Cathedral]] in New York City, and the 1816 town hall and market house, now operated as the Fredericksburg Area Museum and Cultural Center. Another site of interest is [[St. George's Episcopal Church, Fredericksburg|St. George's Church]]. The James Monroe Museum and Memorial Library is located on the site where Monroe practiced law from 1786 to 1788. The museum is housed in a building made up of three individual structures, constructed at different times, beginning in 1816. Near the historic district is the Lewis Plantation, later named Kenmore, the plantation home of George Washington's sister [[Elizabeth Washington Lewis|Betty]] and her husband, [[Fielding Lewis]]. Civil War battles are commemorated in [[Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park]]. Formed by an act of Congress in 1927, the national military park preserves portions of the battlefields of [[Battle of Fredericksburg|Fredericksburg]], [[Battle of Chancellorsville|Chancellorsville]], [[Battle of the Wilderness|the Wilderness]], and [[Battle of Spotsylvania Court House|Spotsylvania Court House]]. The [[Fredericksburg National Cemetery]], also part of the park, was developed by the federal government after the war on Marye's Heights on the Fredericksburg battlefield. It contains more than 15,000 Union burials from the area's battlefields. Many unidentified soldiers were buried in mass graves. Among the 10,000 slaves crossing the Rappahannock for freedom with the Union in 1862 was John Washington. A literate slave from Fredericksburg, he settled in New York and wrote an account of the wartime events several years later. His manuscript was discovered in the 1990s. It was published as the basis of two books, [[David W. Blight]]'s ''A Slave No More'' (2007), and ''John Washington's Civil War: A Slave Narrative'' (2008), edited by Crandall Shifflett.<ref>[https://lsupress.org/books/detail/john-washington-s-civil-war/ ''John Washington's Civil War'', ed. Crandall Shifflett, Louisiana State University Press, 2008]</ref> In 2010, the National Park Service, which manages the battlefield, Stafford County, and the City of Fredericksburg worked collaboratively to post new historical markers on either side of the Rappahannock River as part of a "Freedom Trail" to mark this exodus.<ref name="trail"/> Notable 20th-century sites and structures include the campus of the [[University of Mary Washington]] (begun in 1908), and [[Carl's Ice Cream]], an Art Moderne roadside ice cream stand, listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Nearby points of interest include [[Ferry Farm]] historic site across the Rapahannock in [[Stafford County, Virginia|Stafford County]] where Washington spent his boyhood, and the [[George Washington Birthplace National Monument]], located {{convert|38| miles}} to the east in [[Westmoreland County, Virginia|Westmoreland County]] on the Northern Neck. The historic community of [[Falmouth, Virginia|Falmouth]] lies across the Rappahannock to the north and includes the historic house Belmont, home of American Impressionist artist [[Gari Melchers]]. ===Parks=== Public parks run by the city include:<ref name=ParkMap>{{cite web|title=map of parks in Fredericksburg VA|url=http://www.fredericksburgva.gov/uploadedFiles/Parks_Recreation_and_Public_Facilities/GeneralContent/PRSites_Sept08%20MAP.pdf|publisher=Fredericksburg City Parks and Recreation|access-date=July 28, 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110622000552/http://fredericksburgva.gov/uploadedFiles/Parks_Recreation_and_Public_Facilities/GeneralContent/PRSites_Sept08%20MAP.pdf|archive-date=June 22, 2011}}</ref> * Old Mill Park * Alum Spring Park<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.historypoint.org/columns2.asp?column_id=1094&column_type=hpfeature |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041113090710/http://historypoint.org/columns2.asp?column_id=1094&column_type=hpfeature |url-status=dead |archive-date=November 13, 2004 |date=October 28, 2004 |title=Alum Spring Park: A Walk Through History |publisher=The Central Rappahannock Regional Library |website=Historypoint.org |first=Barbara |last=Crookshanks }}</ref> * Hurkamp Park * Dixon Park ===Public Library=== [[Central Rappahannock Regional Library]]
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