Lower Church is a historic Episcopal

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located near

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. It was constructed in 1717, and is a one-story, rectangular brick building with a clipped gable roof. It measures 56 feet by 34 feet. an
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in 1973. George Washington, the first president and Founding Father of the United States, attended the school at this church.

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