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.
The Library frequently hosts a variety of dynamic events, welcoming established scholars, leaders, and experts from numerous fields.
Join Mount Vernon for a digital Ford Evening Book Talk with Nathan Raab in conversation with the Washington Library's Executive Director Kevin Butterfield.
They will discuss Raab's new book, The Hunt for History.
Learn MoreAs our nation approaches its next presidential election, the 2020 George Washington Symposium will focus on several pivotal contests throughout American history, those that truly shaped and defined the election process and the American Presidency. This year’s event will be delivered virtually and at no charge. Each day at noon during the week of October 26-30, we will invite an eminent scholar to join us in a conversation to explore elections during Washington’s lifetime and key elections that followed, including those from the Civil War era, the depths of the Great Depression, and the volatile mid-twentieth century. With this free and virtual event, you will have the opportunity to learn from some of the nation's leading historians about how Americans have elected their presidents from Washington's time to our own.
The George Washington Symposium is supported by a generous endowment established by the Barra Foundation.
Additional support for this special digital presentation is provided by the Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy at the University of Missouri.
The links to each livestream will be provided below, prior to the event.
Learn MoreJoin the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy and the Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington for the annual George Washington Leadership Lecture on Monday, October 26, 2020, Electing a U.S. President - Then and Now.
Learn MoreThe 2021 Mount Vernon Symposium will take place on June 4-6.
Join leading gardeners, historians, horticulturists, archaeologists, and preservationists as they reconsider the importance of gardening, landscapes, and design in early America. Learn how Washington and his contemporaries shaped the natural world to achieve beauty through gardening, profited through agriculture, and conveyed civic values through landscape design—and how these historic methods remain relevant in today’s world. Revisit long-lost gardens, explore contemporary creations inspired by the past, and come face-to-face with the most authentic 18th-century plantation landscape in the United States.
The Mount Vernon Symposium is endowed by the generous support of The Robert H. Smith Family Foundation and Lucy S. Rhame.
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