Washington Slept Here

When I was a kid, long ago, there was a standing joke that every spot in the east with a modicum of history bragged that "Washington slept here". I don't hear this joke much these days, but here's a place where he actually did crash, on a presidential visit to Charleston in 1791. This is the Heyward-Washington House, built in 1770 by Thomas Heyward, a signer of the Declaration of Independence. It says something for a bloke's stature that all he has to do is hang at a place for a day or two to get his name on the house along with the owner's.