Open 365 Days a Year, Mount Vernon is located just 15 miles south of Washington DC.
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Discover what made Washington "first in war, first in peace and first in the hearts of his countrymen".
The Mount Vernon Ladies Association has been maintaining the Mount Vernon Estate since they acquired it from the Washington family in 1858.
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This intriguing portrait has an English provenance from the early decades of the 20th century and was purchased from an English collector in the early 1950s. It has been inscribed with the name of the eldest granddaughter of Martha Washington, Eliza Parke Custis, on the reverse. However when compared…
Four months after taking office, President George Washington directed his London agents, Wakelin Welch & Son, "to send me by the first vessel, which sails for New York, a terrestrial globe of the largest dimensions and of the most accurate and approved kind now in use." Dudley Adams, globemaker to King…
This charming miniature of Elizabeth Parke Custis, the eldest granddaughter of Martha Washington, was painted in 1814 by renowned artist James Peale. By 1814, the sitter had been separated for ten years and divorced for three years from her husband Thomas Law, whom she had married in 1795. We know from…
