Thanks to a dedicated team of women working to preserve the estate throughout the years, Mount Vernon is now one of the most popular historic sites in America. Read on as we share an in-depth ...
1. -- Within a few hundred feet of the tomb of George Washington the skeleton of a man was discovered by Gatekeeper Vickers to-day in a dense growth of underbrush on the Mount Vernon estate.
Slaves on the four outlying farms of the Mount Vernon estate may have had even more freedom in their private lives than those residing at the Mansion House (Mount Vernon), where personal servants ...