Gustavus Richard Brown was a lifelong friend of George Washington's, a physician, helped found the hospital department of the Continental Army, and a botanist. He is best known as one of the doctors s
South elevation of Dr. Gustavus Brown's home Rose Hill on Rose Hill Road, vicinity of Port Tobacco, Charles County, Maryland. Built late 18th Century, restored 1937. Photograph by Thomas T. Waterman, 1940, for the Historic American Buildings Survey.
Ferry Farm, the Washington family residence on the Rappahannock River in Stafford County, Virginia, where Washington spent much of his youth