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Food & Lifestyle March 21, 2017 March 13, 2017

A Republic of Wool: Founding Era Americans’ Grand Plans for Sheep

by Brett Bannor

Only 1,457 pounds of wool? George Washington was astonished. He had 568 sheep, so that meant the recent shearing at Mount Vernon and his…

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