George Washington and his wife Mary Jane founded the plat that established the town of Centerville, later renamed Centralia, in Lewis County in Southwest Washington. Washington, a pioneer from Virginia and the son of an African-American slave and a woman of English descent. Washington was born in Frederick County, Virginia, on August 15, 1817. His father was […]

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