While photography is not permitted within the mansion's interior which is an incredible restoration, I have shared some photographs of the grounds.
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View from the back of the Mount Vernon Mansion : The Potomac River. In the late 1700s it was full of herring |
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Mansion at Mount Vernon acquired by Washington in 1754. The original home was much smaller, but expanded by Washington to 21 rooms. |
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Working Farm |
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Washington's Tomb |
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The Slave Memorial at Mount Vernon is on sacred grounds a short distance from Washington's Tomb. This is sacred ground and cemetery of those who were enslaved and died at Mount Vernon. "Local folklore/tradition says that the bodies were buried with their feet towards the east (the river), symbolizing their desire to return to Africa" |
From mountvernon.org:
"At the time of George Washington’s death, the Mount Vernon estate’s enslaved population consisted of 317 people. Washington himself had been a slave owner for fifty-six years, beginning at eleven years of age when he inherited ten slaves from his deceased father. Washington’s thoughts on slavery were contradictory and changed over time. This evolution culminated near the end of his life; Washington’s will mandated the freeing of all his slaves upon his wife’s death, making him the only slaveholding Founder to put provisions for manumission in his will."
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