About Mount Vernon
Mount Vernon is the former residence and plantation of George Washington, an American Founding Father, commander of the Continental Army in the Revolutionary War, and the first president of the United States, and his wife, Martha. An American landmark, the estate lies on the banks of the Potomac River in Fairfax County, Virginia, approximately 15 miles (25 km) south of Washington, D.C. The Washington family acquired land in the area in 1674. Around 1734, the family embarked on an expansion of its estate that continued under George Washington, who began leasing the estate in 1754 before becoming its sole owner in 1761. The mansion was built of wood in a loose Palladian style; the original house was built in about 1734 by George Washington's father Augustine Washington. George Washington expanded the house twice, once in the late 1750s and again in the 1770s.
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Things to see nearby
- Attempted theft of George Washington's skull
- Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington
- Little Hunting Creek
- Tower House (Alexandria, Virginia)
- Mount Vernon High School (Virginia)
- Mount Vernon Trail
- Raid on Alexandria (Virginia)
- Marshall Hall, Maryland
- Islamic Saudi Academy
- P. O. Box 1142
- Fort Hunt Park
- Mount Vernon, Virginia
- Accokeek Creek Site
- Moyaone Reserve