Open 365 days a year, Mount Vernon is located just 15 miles south of Washington DC.
From the mansion to lush gardens and grounds, intriguing museum galleries, immersive programs, and the distillery and gristmill. Spend the day with us!
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.
Need help with homework? Our Digital Encyclopedia has all of the answers students and teachers need.
The Washington Library is open to all researchers and scholars, by appointment only.
The winner of the Mount Vernon History Teacher of the Year will receive a $5,000 cash award, as well as an all-expense paid trip to George Washington's Mount Vernon for up to 100 students and 10 chaperones (inclusive of bus transportation, tickets to the Estate, and lunch vouchers).
The Mount Vernon Teacher of the Year runner-up will receive tickets to George Washington's Mount Vernon for up to 50 students and 5 chaperones.
Teachers may submit a self-nomination or be nominated by a colleague.
Mount Vernon is honored to give the History Teacher of the Year Award to Antoinette Dempsey-Waters, a history teacher at Wakefield High School in Arlington, VA. Antoinette is an innovative teacher who has been featured in the Huffington Post, Washington Post, and Atlantic Magazine. She created a course on African American History for her school that will be offered in all Arlington County high schools in the 2020-2021 school year.
A colleague wrote of her work: “Antoinette knows how to reflect on and learn from the past in order to change the future. She relished the “ah-ha” moments of her students when they are finally able to connect the dots in their learning, to go into the world and use their historical knowledge to understand the present.”
2019 Mount Vernon History Teacher of the Year Runner-Up
Jenifer Hitchcock, an AP Government and US History Teacher at Fairfax High School in Fairfax, Virginia was selected as the 2019 runner-up.
Read the press release here.
