Digital Encyclopedia

Agriculture

Agricultural Equipment | Arthur Young | Dismal Swamp Company | Dogue Run Barn | Dogue Run Farm | Farm Structure | Ferry Farm | George Washington as Farmer | Hippopotomus | Robert Cary and Company | Union Farm | Vaughan Plan

American Revolution

Abigail Adams | Appointment as Commander-in-Chief | Arthur St. Clair | Asgill Affair | Baron von Steuben | Battle of Germantown | Battle of Harlem Heights | Battle of Kip's Bay | Battle of Long Island | Battle of Monmouth | Battle of Trenton | Benedict Arnold | Benjamin Franklin | Cato | Charles Lee | Cincinnatus | Continental Army | Conway Cabal | Crossing of the Delaware River | Culper Spy Ring | Elizabeth Willing Powel | George Mason | H.M.S. Savage | Henry Lee, Jr. | Hessians | Horatio Gates | John André | Jonathan Boucher | John Hancock | John Laurens | John Marshall | Lewis Nicola | Loyalists | Marquis de Lafayette | Marquis de Lafayette at Valley Forge | Martha Washington and the Revolution | Morristown | Nathaneal Greene | Newburgh Address | Newburgh Conspiracy | New York Provincial Congress | Patrick Henry | Prisoners of War | Rochambeau | Samuel Fraunces | Siege of Boston | Society of the Cincinnati | Thomas Gage | Thomas Mifflin | Thomas Paine | Trinity Church | Valley Forge | William Alexander | William Livingston | Yorktown Campaign

American West

Allegheny Expedition | Christopher Gist | Conotocarious | George Croghan | George Washington and the West | James Craik | Mississippi Land Company | Ohio River Valley | Potomac Company | Surveying

Animals

Birds | Buffalo | Camel | Cattle | Deer | Dogs | Donkeys | Hogs | Nelson (horse) | Royal Gift | Sheep

Artists

Adolf Ulrik Wertmüller | Charles Peale Polk | Charles Willson Peale | Eastman Johnson | George Beck | Horatio Greenough | Jean-Antoine Houdon | John Ramage | Rembrandt Peale | Thomas Prichard Rossiter | Edward Savage

Family

American Ancestry | Ancestry | Ball Family | Coat of Arms | Custis Family | Elizabeth Parke Custis Law | Fairfax Family | Fanny Bassett | George Washington | George Washington Parke Custis | John Parke Custis | Lawrence Lewis | Martha Parke Custis | Martha Washington | Popes Creek | Robert Lewis

Food and Drink

Beer | Champagne | Dining at Mount Vernon | Grapes | Great Cake | Hoecakes and Honey | Ice Cream | Madeira | Pineapples | Tea | Whiskey

Gardens

Batty Langley | Gardeners | Landscape and Gardens | Upper Garden | Vistas

Mansion

Bedchamber | Cupola Tower | Downstairs Bedroom | Early Views of Mount Vernon | Exterior Architectural Details | Front Parlor | Garret Bedchamber | Washington and Architecture | Interior Architectural Details | Kitchen | Little Parlor | New Room | Palladian Window | Rustication |  Washington's Study

Military

Braddock's Defeat | Fabian Strategy | Life Guards | Military Badges | Miltiary Discipline | The Journal of Major George Washington | William Crawford | Wills Creek

Mount Vernon

Benjamin Latrobe | Blacksmith Shop | Burials at Mount Vernon | Christmas at Mount Vernon | Development of Mount Vernon | Distillery | Dung Repository | Gristmill | Growth of Mount Vernon | Henry James' "Pandora" | Hospitality | Mansion | Music |  Pilgrimages to Washington's Tomb | Servants and Marriage | Servants' Hall | Stable | Thanksgiving | Tobias Lear | Tomb

Objects

Acts of Congress | Bastille Key | Cabinet Portrait | Chippendale Side Chair | Copy Press | Don Quixote | False Teeth | Watermark

Personal

Alexandria | Barbados | Belvoir | Commemoration of George Washington's Birthday | Courtship | Death | Education | Freemasonry | Friends | Funeral Ministers | George Washington and Entertainment | George Washington and Religion | George Washington in Popular Culture |   George Washington's Papers | Georges Washington de Lafayette | Last Will and Testament | Lord Fairfax | Martha Washington's Style | Mourning George Washington | Mourning at Mount Vernon | Pallbearers | Parenting | Parson Weems | Personality | Pohick Church |  The Rules of Civility and Decent Behaviour | Spurious Quotations | Sally Fairfax | Smallpox | Travel | Vine and Fig Tree | Washington and Lafayette | Wooden Teeth Myth

Politics

Circular Letter to the States | Constitutional Convention | Federalist Papers | House of Burgesses | Mount Vernon Conference | Press Attacks | Quasi War | Winchester, Virginia | XYZ Affair

Preservation

Ann Pamela Cunningham | Early Fundraising, Mount Vernon Ladies' Association | Early History, Mount Vernon Ladies' Association | Edward Everett | Mount Vernon During the Civil War | Mount Vernon During World War II

Presidency

Accepting Presidency | Alexander Hamilton | Cabinet Members | Benjamin Franklin Backe | First and Second Inaugural | James Madison | Jay Treaty | John Adams | John Jay | Life in New York | Martha Washington During the Presidency | Morocco | Native American Policy | Presidential Diplomacy | Presidential Entertaining | Presidential Precedents | Presidential Residency in New York | Southern Tour | Thomas Jefferson | Whiskey Rebellion

Servants and Laborers

Albin Rawlins | Alexander Cleveland | Anthony Whiting | Cornelius McDermott Roe | David Cowan | Eleanor Forbes | Going Lanphier | James Anderson | James Bloxham | James Butler | James Donaldson | Johann Christian Ehlers | John Allison | Jonathan Alton | John Askew | John Broad | John Fairfax | John Gottleib Richter | John Knowles | John Neale | John Patterson | John Saunders | John Violet | Joseph Cash | Matthew Baldridge | Michael Tracy | Philip Bateman | Richard Boulton | Richard Burnet | Richard Tharpe | Thomas Bishop | Thomas Brooks | Thomas Green | Thomas Mahony | William Garner | William Pearce | William Roberts | William Skilling | William Spence | William Stewart | William Tripplet

Slavery

Austin | Charlotte | George Washington and Slavery | Greenhouse Slave Quarters |  House for Families | Islam at Mount Vernon | Marquis de Lafayette's Plan for Slavery | Phillis Wheatley | Plantation Structure | Private Lives of Slaves | Sambo Anderson | Slave Burial Ground | Slave Clothing | Slave Control | Slave Demographics | Slave Labor | Slave Quarters | Slave Religion | Slave Resistance | Slavery and Family | Slavery and Marriage | Status of Slaves in Washington's Will