BGuthrie Photos: VA -- Mt. Vernon -- Wharf and Pioneer Farmer area

VA -- Mt. Vernon -- Wharf and Pioneer Farmer area:

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1. MTVERB_070924_013.JPG: The plume of smoke in the distance grew quickly and then dissipated. No idea what it was or where it was.
2. MTVERB_070924_059.JPG: Visionary Farmer: "I hope someday or another, we shall become a store house and granary for the world." -- George Washington to the Marquis de Lafayette, June 19, 1788 While the world remembers him as a great military and political leader, George Washington would have told you he was first and foremost a farmer. By the mid-1760s -- more than a decade before the Revolutionary War -- Washington had switched his main cash crop from tobacco to wheat. He knew that wheat did not deplete the soil as quickly as tobacco and had economic advantages as well. Because the British did not regular the sale of wheat as closely as tobacco, he had more markets in which to sell his wheat for greater profit. Washington used the most modern scientific farming methods at Mount Vernon. He introduced an innovative seven-year crop rotation plan and experimented with soil enhancers to increase the productivity of his fields. He acquired the most modern farm implements and began a progressive system of livestock management. He divided his Mount Vernon estate into five farms. The Washingtons lived on the Mansion House farm, and the other four farms were for agricultural production. Each of the four outlying farms was home to between 40 and 80 slaves, who worked from sun-up to sun-down six days a week to implement Washington's visionary ideas. In 1771, Washington opened a merchant mill. He transported wheat and corn grown at his farms to the mill for grinding into flour and cornmeal. He sold these products as far away as Europe and the West Indies. In 1797, Washington further expanded and diversified his farming operations by constructing a distillery next to his mill. Although Washington loved the life of a farmer, his motivation went far beyond personal satisfaction and profit. He believed that American economic success lay in the nation's ability to produce agricultural products that could be sold around the world.
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4. MTVERB_070924_080.JPG: Innovative Barn: "I am now erecting a building for the express purpose of treading." -- George Washington to Anthony Whiting, October 26, 1792 Between 1792 and 1795, Washington built a 16-sided treading barn at Dogue Run Farm. Long frustrated by the inefficiency of threshing grain out of doors under the "vissitudes of weather," Washington designed this circular barn so that wheat could be tread indoors by horses and miles. From the treading floor on the second level, the grain fell between slatted floorboards to the level below, where it was gathered, cleaned, and sent to the gristmill to be ground. Washington's design was the only one of its kind. However, with the increasing availability of reliable threshing machines by the end of the 18th century, he discontinued his plans to build additional treading barns at Mount Vernon. In 1996, Mount Vernon opened this reconstruction of George Washington's treading barn, which was built from Washington's original plans.
5. MTVERB_070924_091.JPG: George Washington invented this barn in 1792 to improve the processing of wheat. Slaves spread harvested wheat on the outer circle of the floor. Horses trotted in a circular path, and the impact of their hooves broke the wheat out of the straw. The loose grain fell through gaps between the floorboards to the level below, where the grain was shoveled into bins, cleaned, and then sent to Washington's gristmill to be ground into flour. This barn is a faithful reconstruction of Washington's innovative treading barn, based upon his original drawings and specifications.
6. MTVERB_070924_128.JPG: Sunrise to Sunset: "The sun never caught him in bed, and he was unwilling it should find any of his people sleeping." -- Former Washington slave, 1838 In 1799, most of Mount Vernon's 316 slaves were field workers; and well over half of the field workers were women. Oversees supervised the work on each farm and reported to a farm manager, who oversaw production on all four farms. According to a 1799 census, the population of the four outlying farms was as follows: "Dogue Run Farm -- 45 salves: 17 adult women, 7 adult men, 21 children River Farm -- 57 slaves: 23 adult women, 15 adult men, 19 children Muddy Hole Farm -- 42 slaves: 17 adult women, 7 adult men, 18 children Union Farm -- 74 slaves: 24 adult women, 16 adult men, 34 children." Carried out in "gangs" of eight to ten people, the slaves' jobs varied with the seasons. In the spring, they planted and cared for the crops. During the harvesting season in late summer and fall, farm workers were joined by other enslaved laborers from the gristmill and the Mansion House Farm, where the Washingtons lived. Everyone worked hard to harvest the crops on time. Although winter was a quieter season, there was still much work to do. Crops had to be processed, seeds saved, ditches dug, firewood cut, corn husked, fences repaired, and hogs slaughtered and preserved for food.
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