Tour Mount Vernon
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The River
0:00 start
0:15 Pier 4 at The Wharf Dc
1:25 Alexandria, VA
1:44 Fort Washington Park
2:10 Mount Vernon
2:57 Tomb of George and Martha Washington
4:24 Rooms in the Mount Vernon home
5:20 Gardens and Greenhouse
6:30 Slave Quarters
6:40 Shoemakers Shop
6:46 Stove Room
6:48 Necessary
7:25 Donald W. Reynolds Museum & Education Center
11:27 The Wharf DC
City Experiences provides the only round-trip Mount Vernon cruises direct from Washington, DC - and includes admission to Mount Vernon with three hours to explore the estate and gardens.
The cruise down the Potomac River takes 90 minutes each way and passes by the city of Alexandria Virginia and Fort Washington Park.
George Washington lived at Mount Vernon for over 40 years.
Between 1759 and his death in 1799, he expanded the plantation from 2,000 acres to 8,000 and expanded the house from six rooms to 21.
George Washington was one of the largest landowners and richest and most innovative planters in Virginia.
He retired to his home at Mount Vernon in 1797 and died there two years later at the age of 67. His wife lived there until she passed away in 1802.
The house, with its long two-story piazza overlooking the Potomac River, is one of the most instantly recognizable buildings in America.
The upper garden is one of four gardens on the property. Intended as a formal garden for the enjoyment of guests to the property.
There is also a lower garden for vegetables, a Fruit Garden and Nursery, and a Botanical Garden..
The Mount Vernon Ladies' Association purchased Mount Vernon from John Augustine Washington the third, the great grandnephew of George Washington in 1858. The association restored the house in the country's first successful nationwide preservation effort, and opened the estate to the public in 1860.
Today the mansion has been restored to the way it looked in 1799.
The grounds remain largely as Washington intended with the smokehouse, workshops, stables, and other restored outbuildings, where slaves did much of the work of the estate.
The tomb of George and Martha Washington lies to the south of the mansion.
The Ford Orientation Center and the underground, Donald W. Reynolds Museum, and Education Center include galleries and theaters, interactive displays, and over 700 artifacts.
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