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.
Colonel Dodge recalled of this visit:
“In 1906, the Prince Sayajiras, Gaekwar of Baroda, and the Princess visited us. In my conversation with this distinguished prince of India, I learned that he was acquainted with Dr. Wynkoop, Secretary of the English Bible Society, who had married a cousin of mine. Hearing this, the Princess unexpectedly drew from under her gorgeous shawl a small camera with which she took a picture that later she delivered to my relative.”
