Things To Do in Mount Vernon

Although not well known outside Virginia, George Mason (1725-92) was one of the most liberal and creative political thinkers of his time. He wrote the Virginia Declaration of Rights, upon which Thomas Jefferson drew for the Declaration of Independence in 1776. Mason also helped draft…

You could easily spend a full day soaking in the life and times of our first president, George Washington, when he lived at Mount Vernon. The 500-acre estate includes the centerpiece mansion, George and Martha Washington’s home, and so much else: gardens, outbuildings, a wharf, slave…

This "mother church of northern Virginia" was built between 1769 and 1774 under the supervision of vestrymen George Washington and George Mason. Theirs and other prominent families paid for their own box pews, laid out opposite the pulpit, which was on the side, as was prevalent in…

On a hill overlooking the Potomac River valley (but not the river), Woodlawn Plantation was a 2,000-acre section of Mount Vernon, of which some 130 acres remain. George Washington gave it as a wedding gift to his adopted daughter (and Martha's granddaughter), beautiful Nelly Parke…