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Mount Vernon
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Mount Vernon
Mount Vernon
was the plantation home of
George Washington
, first
President of the United States
and his wife,
Martha Dandridge Custis Washington
. The estate is situated on the banks of the
Potomac River
in
Fairfax County
,
Virginia
, near
Alexandria
, across from
Prince George's County
,
Maryland
. The Washington family had owned land in the area since the time of Washington's great-grandfather in 1674. In 1739 they embarked on an expansion of the estate that continued under George Washington, who came into possession of the estate in 1754, but did not become its sole owner until 1761.
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