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West Chester couple's house linked to George Washington

The year is 1815. John Aitken, a Scottish-born furniture-maker with a shop on Chestnut Street — whose clients include George Washington — is ready to retire. He shuts his store, buys land in Upper Oxford, Chester County, and starts planning his retirement home. Fast-forward to an early fall day in 1997. Aitken's house is still standing, but its importance remains unknown — that is, until an impatient, tired-with-Route-202-traffic commuter from West Chester takes a new route home from work and spots the house, for sale, on his detour.

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