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See also:MOUNT See also:VERNON , the former See also:home of See also:George See also:Washington, in See also:Fairfax See also:county, See also:Virginia, U.S.A., on the See also:Potomac See also:river, 15 m. below Washington, D.C., reached by steamer from Washington and by electric railway from See also:Alexandria, Virginia. The See also:mansion-See also:house, which is the centre of See also:interest, stands on a See also:bluff overlooking the river. The house is built of See also:wood, but the siding is of wide thick boards so panelled as to give the See also:appearance of cut and dressed stonework. The rooms contain much of the See also:furniture which was in them when they were occupied by See also:General Washington and his See also:family; and the furniture that had been lost has been in See also:part replaced by other furniture of historic interest and of the See also:style in use in Washington's See also:day. In the See also:main See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
hall hangs a See also:glass See also:casket containing the See also:key to the See also:Bastille which Washington received from See also:Lafayette in 1790. From each end of the house a curved See also:colonnade and a See also:pavement See also:lead See also:westerly to a See also:row of out-buildings which partially enclose a See also:bowling See also:green and spacious See also:lawn with shaded drives and walks, and beautiful gardens (with trees planted by Washington, See also:Franklin, See also:Jefferson, Lafayette and others). A See also:short distance See also:south-See also:west of the mansion-house and between it and the See also:wharf is a See also:plain See also:brick See also:tomb, which was built by Washington's direction on a site chosen by himself, and contains the remains of Washington and Mrs Washington (removed to this tomb from the old family vault in 1831), and of about See also:thirty relatives —members of the Washington, See also:Blackburn, Corbin, Bushrod, See also:Lewis and Custis families.
The See also:estate, originally called " Little See also:Hunting See also:Creek See also:Plantation," was devised in 1676 by See also:John Washington (the first of the family in See also:America) to his son, See also:- LAWRENCE
- LAWRENCE (LAURENTIUS, LORENZO), ST
- LAWRENCE, AMOS (1786—1852)
- LAWRENCE, AMOS ADAMS (1814–1886)
- LAWRENCE, GEORGE ALFRED (1827–1876)
- LAWRENCE, JOHN LAIRD MAIR LAWRENCE, 1ST BARON (1811-1879)
- LAWRENCE, SIR HENRY MONTGOMERY (1806–1857)
- LAWRENCE, SIR THOMAS (1769–1830)
- LAWRENCE, STRINGER (1697–1775)
Lawrence, who in turn devised' it to his daughter, Mildred, by whom (and her See also:husband See also:Roger See also:- GREGORY
- GREGORY (Gregorius)
- GREGORY (Grigorii) GRIGORIEVICH ORLOV, COUNT (1734-1783)
- GREGORY, EDWARD JOHN (1850-19o9)
- GREGORY, OLINTHUS GILBERT (1774—1841)
- GREGORY, ST (c. 213-C. 270)
- GREGORY, ST, OF NAZIANZUS (329–389)
- GREGORY, ST, OF NYSSA (c.331—c. 396)
- GREGORY, ST, OF TOURS (538-594)
Gregory) it was deeded in 1726 to her See also:brother See also:Augustine (George Washington's See also:father). On Augustine's See also:death (1743) it passed to Lawrence (George's See also:half-brother), who built in 1743 the See also:villa which forms the See also:middle portion of the See also:present mansion-house and named the estate Mount Vernon, in See also:honour of his former See also:commander, See also:Admiral See also:Edward Vernon (1684–1757). Lawrence See also:left it (1752) to his widow See also:Anne Fairfax (who in the same See also:year married George See also:- LEE
- LEE (or LEGIT) ROWLAND (d. 1543)
- LEE, ANN (1736–1784)
- LEE, ARTHUR (1740–1792)
- LEE, FITZHUGH (1835–1905)
- LEE, GEORGE ALEXANDER (1802-1851)
- LEE, HENRY (1756-1818)
- LEE, JAMES PRINCE (1804-1869)
- LEE, NATHANIEL (c. 1653-16g2)
- LEE, RICHARD HENRY (1732-1794)
- LEE, ROBERT EDWARD (1807–1870)
- LEE, SIDNEY (1859– )
- LEE, SOPHIA (1950-1824)
- LEE, STEPHEN DILL (1833-1908)
Lee) with the proviso that it should pass at her death to George Washington, who meanwhile rented the estate, gaining full See also:possession at her death in 1761. In 1784–1785 he enlarged the villa into the mansion-house with its present dimensions by See also:building an addition at each end, erected several of the out-buildings, and adorned the grounds, all according to his own plans and specifications. At General Washington's death (1799) Mount Vernon passed to his widow; at her death (1802) it passed to his See also:nephew, Bushrod Washington, and at Bushrod Washington's death (1829) to his nephew John Augustine Washington, who devised it in 1832 to his widow, by whom it was devised in 1835 to their son John A. Washington. This last was authorized by his father's will to sell the estate to the See also:United States See also:government, and in 1847 offered the See also:property for $See also:ioo,000, but the offer was refused. In 186o the mansion-house and 200 acres of the See also:original estate, fast falling into decay, were bought for $200,000 (much of which had been raised through the efforts of Edward See also:Everett) by the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association of the See also:Union. This association under its See also:charter (1856) See also:bound itself to restore the estate as far as possible to the See also:condition in which it was in the lifetime of Washington and to keep it sacred to his memory, and Virginia agreed to exempt it from See also:taxation as See also:long as these terms were fulfilled.
See B. J. See also:Lossing, The Home of Washington: or Mount Vernon and its Associations (See also:Hartford, 1870).
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