BGuthrie Photos: VA -- Mt. Vernon -- George Washington's 288th Birthday

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Description of Pictures: Celebrate with General Washington in honor of his 288th birthday! Admission is free and no advanced tickets are required.
Visit Mount Vernon on George Washington's birthday for FREE!
Participate in special wreathlaying ceremonies throughout the day. Join “General Washington” for a slice of birthday cake (while supplies last)!
General Washington loved music and theater. In honor of Washington's 288th birthday, join Mount Vernon as we host a day-long celebration of music, performance, and entertainment the Washington would have enjoyed in the Robert & Clarice H. Smith Auditorium.
Book Signing with Author Jeff Finegan
Book Signing with Author Patrick K. O'Donnell

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1. MTVEB_200217_013.JPG: Expect Delays 2/17/20 Since admission was free and the weather was gorgeous, there was basically no parking within a mile of Mount Vernon. I parked 1.6 miles away and hiked along the Mount Vernon Trail to get to the mansion.
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3. MTVEB_200217_061.JPG: The new National Museum of the United States Army had a booth here.
4. MTVEB_200217_067.JPG: This was the free ticket I got for the mansion tour. To give you an idea, I took this picture at 12:25pm and the entrance was four hours later. I didn't bother sticking around.
5. MTVEB_200217_108.JPG: Massive crowds for everything. I didn't bother seeing any of it.
6. MTVEB_200217_114.JPG: Patrick K. O'Donnell
7. MTVEB_200217_129.JPG: Jeff Finegan (right)
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Wikipedia Description: Mount Vernon
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Mount Vernon, located near Alexandria, Virginia, was the plantation home of the first President of the United States, George Washington. The mansion is built of wood in neoclassical Georgian architectural style, and the estate is located on the banks of the Potomac River.

Mount Vernon was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1960 and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It is owned and maintained in trust by the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association.

History:

The early history of the estate at Little Hunting Creek is separate from that of the home, which was not erected until 1741-42 and occupied for the first time in 1743. In 1674, John Washington and Nicholas Spencer came into possession of the land from which Mount Vernon plantation would be carved. When John Washington died in 1677, his son Lawrence, George Washington's grandfather, inherited his father's stake in the property. In 1690, he agreed to formally divide the estimated 5,000 acre (20 km�) estate with the heirs of Nicholas Spencer. The Spencers took the southern half bordering Dogue Creek (originally called "Epsewasson" in the September 1674 land grant from Lord Culpeper, after the former name of the creek), leaving the Washingtons the portion along Little Hunting Creek.

Upon Lawrence Washington's death, he left the property to his daughter, Mildred. In 1726, at the urging of her brother Augustine Washington (George Washington's father), Mildred sold him the Potomac River estate. In 1735, Augustine Washington moved his young, second family to the estate, settling into a 'Quarter' alongside Little Hunting Creek. In 1738, Augustine recalled his eldest son Lawrence (George's half-brother) home from The Appleby School in England and set him up on the family's Little Hunting Creek tobacco plantation, thereby allowing Augustine to move his family back to Fredericksburg at the end of 1739.

In 1739, Lawrence, having reached ...More...
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2020 photos: Well, that was a year, wasn't it? The COVID-19 pandemic cut off most events here in DC after March 11. The child president's handling of the pandemic was a series of disastrous missteps and lies, encouraging his minions to not wear masks and dramatically increasing infections and deaths here.The BLM protests started in June, made all the worse by the child president's inability to have any empathy for anyone other than himself. Then of course he tried to steal the election in November. What a year! Trips: Because of COVID, the farthest distance I traveled after that was about 40 miles. I only visited sites in four states -- Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia and DC -- and didn't do any overnight travel anywhere. That was the least amount of travel I had done since 1995. Equipment this year: I continued to use my Fuji XS-1 cameras but, depending on the event, I also used a Nikon D7000. Number of photos taken this year: about 246,000, the fewest number of photos I had taken in any year since 2007.
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