Discover the Home of George and Martha Washington. Open 365 days a year, Mount Vernon is located just 15 miles south of Washington DC.

The 17-mile (27 km)-long Mount Vernon Trail travels along the George Washington Memorial Parkway and the Potomac River between the Mount Vernon estate and Rosslyn in Arlington County, Virginia, where it connects to the Custis Trail.

Mount Vernon is the historic home of America's first president, George Washington, just a short drive from Washington, D.C. and Alexandria, VA. ...

2018年1月25日 · Mount Vernon is the former plantation estate and burial location of George Washington, the American Revolutionary War general and the first President of the United States, his wife Martha...

George Washington spent the years between 1759 and 1775 overseeing the farms at Mount Vernon. Washington worked constantly to improve and expand the mansion house and its surrounding plantation. He established himself as an innovative farmer, who switched from tobacco to wheat as his main cash crop in the 1760's.

2017年8月1日 · George Washington’s Mount Vernon is located roughly 15 miles south of Washington, D.C. and 8 miles south of Alexandria, Virginia on the banks of the Potomac River, along the Potomac Heritage Trail corridor at the southern end of the George Washington Memorial Parkway. They are open 365 days a year.

George Washington's Mount Vernon is the riverside home of our nation's first president, George Washington. The estate includes a Mansion, four gardens and historic outbuildings where enslaved people made tools and textiles, cared for livestock and processed food.

Only eight miles south of Old Town Alexandria lies the most visited historic estate in America: George Washington’s Mount Vernon, the general’s former home that continues bustling centuries later.

Mount Vernon, the iconic home of the first president, sits just outside Washington, D.C., and features tours, period demonstrations, historic structures and heritage animals and gardens.

In 1754, George Washington began residing at Mount Vernon, a 3,000-acre estate and a house that likely approximated 3,500 square feet. By his death, Washington’s Mount Vernon consisted of about 7,600 acres and an almost 11,000-square-foot mansion.