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.
Prince Desta Damtew (Ethiopian noble, army commander, and son-in-law of Emperor Haile Selassie I) visited Mount Vernon on July 20, 1933. Photographs from the prince’s visit show him at the wharf, at Washington’s Tomb, and posing outside the Mansion’s east front.
Four years after his visit to Mount Vernon, Desta Damtew was executed on February 24, 1937, by the Italian Armed Forces shortly after Ethiopia's loss in the Second Italo-Ethiopian War.
