Mount Vernon

Yet Mount Vernon would not have had Christmas trees during the late seventeen hundreds, when Washington led the country.

When the Mount Vernon Ladies decided to go ahead and put in the cooling system a few years ago, 2 key staff members resigned in protest.

When George's presidency ended, the Washingtons returned to Mount Vernon, and George passed away only two years later.

When the war ended, Washington returned to Mount Vernon and the life of a tobacco planter.

The two leaders toured the first President's home in Mount Vernon, Virginia and talked the friendship between the US and France.

The design called for a whitewashed brick exterior, borrowing from Mount Vernon's look.

Fatigued and somewhat discouraged, he retired to Mount Vernon after he left the presidency.

One hundred new citizens will be sworn in at Mount Vernon, in the state of Virginia outside Washington, D.

He abandoned the bus later that day in Mount Vernon, sparking a terror scare among local police who rolled out their Emergency Service Unit.

Parlance of Washington's "Virginia Character- Mount Vernon Countryside Character"

Washington longed to retire to his fields at Mount Vernon.

Martha liked her private life and enjoyed being at Mount Vernon with her family.

Is the story true? "Probably not, " says the Web site for his home at Mount Vernon, Virginia.

Even after her son's widow remarried, the two children stayed on at Mount Vernon under their care.

His Mount Vernon plantation grew to 6, 500 acres, and he had other acreage in Virginia and what became West Virginia.

Washington set out at dawn for Mount Vernon, his plantation on the Potomac River in Virginia.

Both lie buried at Mount Vernon, where Washington himself had planned an unpretentious tomb for them.

He believed Mount Vernon was the best estate in America for farming.

He left Mount Vernon on April 16 and arrived in New York City on April 30 for his inauguration.

When the nation's first president died in 1799, more than 300 slaves lived on his Mount Vernon estate.

In the 1920s, Sears, Roebuck and Co. even sold a mail-order home modeled after Mount Vernon, confusingly called "The Jefferson. "

When he died in 1743, George went to live with his older brother at Mount Vernon.

Finally, at 10 p. m. on December 14, 1799, Washington died at his Mount Vernon home.

Around noon on April 14, 1789, Washington flung open the door at Mount Vernon and greeted his visitor with a cordial embrace.

Martin, have you visited Mount Vernon before?

So even though Mount Vernon is 211 years old, it's cool. Literally.

So even though Mount Vernon is 211 years old, it's cool.

Start With George Washington Straight From Mount Vernon *

Slave Cabin on Display At Mount Vernon