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    Mount Vernon is a census-designated place (CDP) and unincorporated community in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States. The population was 12,914 at the...
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    Mount Vernon is the former residence and plantation of George Washington, a Founding Father, commander of the Continental Army in the Revolutionary War...
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    Mount Vernon High School is a public high school in the Fairfax County Public Schools system located in Mount Vernon, Virginia. Originally constructed...
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    The Mount Vernon Conference was a meeting of delegates from Virginia and Maryland held March 21–28, 1785, to discuss navigational rights in the states'...
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    Mount Vernon is a neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland, located immediately north of the city's downtown. It is named for George Washington's Mount Vernon...
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    along the south bank of the Potomac River from Mount Vernon, Virginia, northwest to McLean, Virginia, and is maintained by the National Park Service...
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    Mount Vernon is a city in Westchester County, New York, United States. It is an inner suburb of New York City, immediately to the north of the borough...
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    Eleanor Parke Custis Lewis (category People from Mount Vernon, Virginia)
    2003), p. 383n. (1) "Burials at Mount Vernon". Digital Encyclopedia. Mount Vernon, Virginia: George Washington's Mount Vernon. Archived from the original...
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  • Mount Vernon is the Virginia estate of George Washington, the first President of the United States. Mount Vernon or Mont Vernon may also refer to: Mount...
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    Bushrod Washington (category People from Mount Vernon, Virginia)
    . Binney p. 24 "Burials at Mount Vernon". Digital Encyclopedia. Mount Vernon, Virginia: George Washington's Mount Vernon. Archived from the original...
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  • The Mount Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union (MVLA) is a non-profit organization that preserves and maintains the Mount Vernon estate originally...
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    George Washington (category People from Mount Vernon, Virginia)
    Mount Vernon from his widow Anne; he inherited it outright after her death in 1761. Lawrence Washington's service as adjutant general of the Virginia...
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    were several notable enslaved people of Mount Vernon, established by George Washington in Fairfax County, Virginia prior to the American Revolutionary War...
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    Martha Washington (category People from Mount Vernon, Virginia)
    was remarried to George Washington in 1759, moving to his plantation, Mount Vernon. Her youngest daughter died of epilepsy in 1773, and the Washingtons...
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    Lawrence Washington (1718–1752) (category Mount Vernon)
    survives in the archives of the Mount Vernon estate. The four Virginia Companies mustered at Williamsburg, Virginia, in August 1740, but the transport...
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    President George Washington in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States. Such buildings usually feature Mount Vernon's iconic piazza but might also copy its cupola...
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    States. Located at Washington's home in Mount Vernon, Virginia, the library was built by the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association and is privately funded. It is...
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    Toddy Puller (category People from Mount Vernon, Virginia)
    original on June 17, 2010. "Linda T Puller". Virginia Public Access Project. "Senator Toddy Puller (D-Mount Vernon)". Richmond Sunlight. Project Vote Smart...
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    Mount Vernon High School (MVHS) is a public high school in the Chester Heights section of the City of Mount Vernon in Westchester County, New York, United...
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    The Mount Vernon Trail (MVT) is an 18-mile (29 km) long shared use path that travels along the George Washington Memorial Parkway in Northern Virginia between...
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    Convention of 1787, a fatigued Washington returned to his estate in Virginia, Mount Vernon. He seemed intent on resuming his retirement and letting others...
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    Christopher Sheels (category People from Mount Vernon, Virginia)
    Mount Vernon, Virginia – year and place of death unknown), was a slave and house servant at George Washington's plantation, Mount Vernon, in Virginia...
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    Oney Judge (category People from Mount Vernon, Virginia)
    stopped pressing her to return to Virginia after George Washington's death. Judge was born about 1773 at Mount Vernon, the estate of George Washington...
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    Mount Vernon is a town in Kennebec County, Maine, United States. The population was 1,721 at the 2020 census. Mount Vernon is included in the Augusta,...
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    Martha Parke Custis Peter (category People from Mount Vernon, Virginia)
    between living at the Washingtons' plantation, Mount Vernon in Virginia, and the Calverts' plantation, Mount Airy in Maryland. In 1778, John Parke Custis...
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    Caroline Branham (category People from Mount Vernon, Virginia)
    eleven years of apprenticeship. Branham was born into slavery in 1764 at Mount Vernon. Her mother's enslaver was Daniel Parke Custis, who died in 1757 without...
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  • Mount Vernon Nazarene University (MVNU) is a private Christian university in Mount Vernon, Ohio, with satellite locations in the surrounding area. It...
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    Mt. Vernon is an unincorporated community in Putnam County, West Virginia, United States. It is part of the census-designated place of Teays Valley. The...
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    1797 to manage his plantation at Mount Vernon. Washington lived an upper-class lifestyle. Like most planters in Virginia, Washington imported luxury items...
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    George Washington Parke Custis (category People from Mount Vernon, Virginia)
    a stepson of George Washington. He and his sister Eleanor grew up at Mount Vernon and in the Washington presidential household. Upon reaching age 21, Custis...
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