Sites in Washington
Key to the plat is here.

left,  General Johnston Home, 1931
right, Where Gen Albert Sydney Johnston was born, 1906

Cedar Hill, Home of Col. L. B. Goggin, Washington

left, Birthplace of Gen. Albert Sidney Johnson, Washington, 1954
right, Where Gen Albert Sidney Johnston was born, image is circa 1910

There's a brief bio of General Johnston here, and a piece
about his most famous Civil War Battle - Shiloh - here.
Google will give you hundreds more sites about both.
There's a remarkable obituary of Gen. Johnson, here.

left, The Old Post Office in Washington
right, Post Office, 1955

Washington Methodist Church
A little background on the church is here.

left, Marshall Key home, 1955
right, Slave Quarters in back of Key home
more here

Main Street, Washington, 1910 
"Showing, on the right, the house where Harriett Beecher Stowe,
 Henry Clay, and Daniel Webster  were entertained by Col. Marshall 
Key in the early 1840's"

Main Street, Washington, 1955

Johnson House and Main Street

Thomas Marshall Home

Edna Hunter Best's "Sketches of Washington," from 1936, is here.

Two web sites dedicated to Washington are:

Historic Washington, here and here.

Court House in Washington,
 "where Harriet Beecher Stowe saw an old colored
 man sold and whom she named Uncle Tom."
This building was hit by lightning in 1909, and was not rebuilt.

Washington School

Washington Volunteer Fire Department, 1955

You can find a remarkable number of Washington Images at the Library of
Congress' American Memory Site.  Start here, and click on the Browse By Place link
on the left.  You can look for Kentucky, and Mason County at that point.

A honest question for the good folks of Washington, here.

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