1. Dignified old rowhouses on historic Mount Vernon Square were marred by iron bars on their windows.

2. The Mount Vernon Ladies' Association - the nation's first preservationist organization that once saved Washington's estate from ruin after the U. S. Civil War - struggled mightily with this dilemma.

3. He abandoned the bus later that day in Mount Vernon,( ) sparking a terror scare among local police who rolled out their Emergency Service Unit.

4. Mount Vernon was George Washington's home estate, a self - contained community, overlooking the Potomac River.

5. Washington's dream of retirement at his beloved Mount Vernon lasted only three years.

6. Documents at Mount Vernon indicate that Houdon had made the bust days before the life mask, which suggests the two would have differed more, because the bust would have been done freehand .

7. Mount Vernon , the home of George Washington, the nation's first president , is air - conditioned , also.

8. Washington longed to retire to his fields at Mount Vernon.

9. The Mount Vernon Ladies' Association - the nation's first preservationist organization that once saved Washington's estate from ruin after the U. S.

10. If he's never hit a kid, then he can work at Mount Vernon.

11. After the British surrender at Yorktown , October 19, 1781, George Washington returned to Mount Vernon.

12. In the spring of 1777 she arrived at his headquarters in Morristown, New Jersey, but she returned to Mount Vernon for the summer.

13. From 1759 to the outbreak of the American Revolution, Washington managed his lands around Mount Vernon and served in the Virginia House of Burgesses.

14. You remember, Fleur? The young Englishman I met at Mount Vernon.