George Washington House
Georgian house at the Garrison where George Washington stayed in 1751, now a museum with tunnels.
George Washington House, long known as Bush Hill House, stands above the Garrison Savannah in Bridgetown and dates from the early eighteenth century. In 1751 the nineteen-year-old George Washington rented rooms here for about two months with his half-brother Lawrence, who had come to Barbados in the hope that the climate would relieve his tuberculosis. It was the only journey Washington made outside mainland North America. The Barbados National Trust restored the house and opened it to the public in 2007.
The ground floor is furnished as an eighteenth-century household, with a bedchamber, dining room and service rooms, while the upper floor holds a museum of more than two hundred objects covering Barbadian plantation society, the enslavement of Africans, the Garrison and Washington's visit. Tickets include a walk through a restored two-hundred-foot section of the Garrison Tunnels, a nineteenth-century military passage rediscovered beneath the site. The house lies within Historic Bridgetown and its Garrison, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Highlights
- The only house outside North America in which George Washington lived
- Rooms furnished to show eighteenth-century Barbadian domestic life
- Museum of over 200 objects on the Garrison, plantations and enslavement
- Guided walk through a restored section of the Garrison Tunnels
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