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.
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The Washington Library is open to all researchers and scholars, by appointment only.
Rick Atkinson is the bestselling author of the Liberation Trilogy — An Army at Dawn, The Day of Battle, and The Guns at Last Light — as well The British Are Coming, which is the first of his highly anticipated Revolution Trilogy. Among many accolades, the book won the 2020 George Washington Prize for the year’s best work on our founding era.
Read our conversation with Pulitzer Prize winner Rick Atkinson as he shifts gears to focus on the American Revolution.
Rick Atkinson, best-selling author and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, explores the Revolutionary War in a new trilogy.
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Rick Atkinson discusses The British Are Coming, his first volume of the Revolution Trilogy, with patriotic philanthropist and noted interviewer David Rubenstein.
On September 25, 2020, Washington College, The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, and George Washington's Mount Vernon announced Rick Atkinson as the winner of the 2020 George Washington Prize.
