Beltsville boasts a distinguished Revolutionary War hero as its native son.

Charles Kitchell Gardner was son of a Revolutionary War hero.

Zephaniah Platt, who built the house in 1754, was a Revolutionary War hero.

Anderson was named for a Revolutionary War hero, Robert Anderson.

In 1986, the community held a ceremony marking Fugate's grave as a Revolutionary War hero.

Lisa's father had been a very young Revolutionary War hero, a respected politician, a rich man who had raised his daughter with every luxury.

The elusive goal was to ring the state's Revolutionary War hero.

Inside the colonnade would be statues of 30 prominent Revolutionary War heroes.

Finally, on April 30, 1789, George Washington, Revolutionary War hero, was elected the country's first president.

The way he sees, it, "You can more easily summon up the spirits of the dead Revolutionary War heroes at that early hour."