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Board of Agriculture certificate admitting George Washington as Foreign Honorary Member, 1795 – Antique Print

Board of Agriculture certificate admitting George Washington as Foreign Honorary Member, 1795 — historic image
Board of Agriculture certificate admitting George Washington as Foreign Honorary Member, 1795. Historic image from the Presidents collection.

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Board of Agriculture certificate admitting George Washington as Foreign Honorary Member, 1795

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Few documents tie Washington's public career to his private farming as directly as this 1795 certificate from Britain's Board of Agriculture, which named him a foreign honorary member. The board had been founded only two years earlier to promote scientific improvement of farming, and its leading figure, Sir John Sinclair, looked for correspondents well beyond Britain. Washington, who ran Mount Vernon as a working estate and experimented with crop rotation and soil management, was a fitting choice for such recognition. The certificate shows how far his reputation as a planter had traveled beyond America.

Original scan1,536 × 1,459 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-124140

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