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Mt. Vernon District No. 3, Fairfax Co.
This map depicts the Mt. Vernon District in 1878 and includes the entirety of the land that historically belonged to George Washington. Faced with Mount Vernon's decreasing profitability, Washington's descendants had sold off the surrounding farms. Private residences and business began to spring up along the growing network of roads, Compared to Washington's own map of his estate, changes in the landscape are striking, even 79 years after his passing.
Frederick Bourquin's Steam Lithographic Press, printer; Griffith Morgan Hopkins, Jr., publisher, lithograph, 1878 |