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Emily Rosa
Library Projects Assistant
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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About Jamie Brummitt
Brummitt is a Ph.D. candidate in American Religion at Duke University. Her work examines the material culture of mourning that proliferated after George Washington’s death. Her dissertation asks how and why early Americans produced, distributed, and displayed Washington relics – locks of hair, bones, and images. It traces how mourning for Washington and his relics became central to American Protestantism and politics. It also investigates how Americans’ obsession with Washington relics trickled into Protestant female academies through mourning embroideries. Early Americans engaged relics as powerful objects to understand their roles as political, religious, and gendered citizens.
Jamie is the recipient of the Amanda and Greg Gregory Fellowship
Library Projects Assistant
Guests should park in Mount Vernon visitor lots and enter the library via the pedestrian gate near the four-way traffic intersection. Guests with handicap tags/permits on their vehicle may park at the library, but must call the Library Projects Assistant in advance. Guests who do not call in advance will not be allowed to park at the library.