So true!! The more I learn about our Founding Fathers, the more I am astonished that such men were brought together at that point in time.
It's evem interesting that they fought and squabbled like everyone else...yet produced the greated human endeavor in history!!
Have you been to Mt. Vernon in the DC area? It'll blow you away if you're seriously into American history. George and Martha Washington are entombed there. The manor is fascinating and beautiful. I live in the area at present, and I try to make it over there as often as possible.
Washington, as a young man was a surveyor, and laid out what is now Oldtown Alexandria in the 1740s, IIRC. I was down there today setting up a network for a client, in a building that was there during the Revolution. I can't drive through old town or Bellehaven (where I learned to sail) without thinking of him.