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Emily Rosa
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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.
On August 2, 2016 Library fellow Erin Holmes will discuss the results of her research topic Mount Vernon in the Georgian Atlantic World.
About Erin
Holmes is a Ph.D. candidate in history at the University of South Carolina whose work explores how architectural space and the senses shaped relationships between masters and slaves on colonial plantations in South Carolina, Barbados, and Virginia. At Mount Vernon, she will be studying George Washington’s mid-eighteenth century transformation of the Mansion.
Library Projects Assistant
Guests should park in Mount Vernon visitor lots and enter the library campus via the pedestrian gate near the four-way traffic stop.