History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. - Winston Churchill

Dr. Hugh Mercer, physician, soldier & patriot, practiced medicine and operated an apothecary shop from 1771 to 1776 in Fredericksburg, Virginia. Poor Dr. Mercer met his end as the result of wounds he recieved in the Revolutionary War at the Battle of Princeton. Many historians believe that, as a result of this, the vast majority of Virginians refuse to vacation in New Jersey to this very day. Most claim that although not too many people remember Dr. Mercer, per se, everyone can remember that to go to New Jersey means you may easily die a gruesome death, without benefit of modern medicine or comfortable hotel accomodations. This 18th century building, near the original site of Dr. Mercer's actual shop, displays surgical instruments and typical pharmaceuticals of the period and was once, in the early 1990's widely known for the lively, robust performance of a much loved teenaged docent who, with her never ending supply of wit and charm, led many a sunburned and foot sore tourist to a new understanding of the wonders of the common leech.