Under Your Nose: A Trip Back to 1799
Last of Major Mount Vernon Restorations Is Complete
- By Andrea Cohen
- Roll Call Staff
- March 17, 2008, Midnight
In the years following George Washington’s death in 1799, the ownership of Mount Vernon — which at one time was an 8,000-acre plantation — changed hands among family members five times. The former president’s sprawling Virginia estate just proved to be too much to manage, especially as tourists started flocking to the “national shrine.”
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