Washington in London?!

One of the most surprising sights that I encountered the first time I was in London was a statue of George Washington in Trafalgar Square.  This was the last figure I would have thought to be captured in bronze in the middle of the most famous square in Great Britain.  Apparently it was a gift from the Commonwealth of Virginia in 1921 and modeled after a marble one in Richmond.  It is rumored that because Washington said he would never set foot in London again after the Revolutionary War that soil from Virginia was placed under the statue.  It is also interesting to note that around the corner from Trafalgar Square is the only remaining, in-tact home of Benjamin Franklin.