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Rippon Lodge is a house built about 1725 by Richard Blackburn. It later became the residence of his son Col Thomas Blackburn, a friend and comrade in arms of Gen. Washington, who often visited here. It was also the family home of Mrs. Bushrod Washington, Ann Blackburn, and Mrs. John Augustine Washington, Jane Charlotte Blackburn, each in turn the Mistress of Mount Vernon.
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