Download or read book Washington Proprietor of Mount Vernon written by James Hosmer Penniman and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Washington Proprietor of Mount Vernon written by James Hosmer Penniman and published by . This book was released on 2013-03 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes The Estate And Ownership Of Mount Vernon.
Download or read book Mount Vernon and Its Preservation 1858 1910 written by Thomas Nelson Page and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Experiencing Mount Vernon written by Jean Butenhoff Lee and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Washington, acutely aware of the accomplishments and potential of the American Revolution, used his Mount Vernon estate both to preserve the memory of events that had created a new nation and to forward his keen vision of what that nation might become. During the 1780s and 1790s, an era when neither public museums nor a national library existed, visitors to Mount Vernon viewed John Trumbull's iconic image of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, Houdon's famous bust of the countryís preeminent hero, and Washington's voluminous wartime correspondence. More important, they listened as the Washingtons recalled the remarkable events that had forged independence and the unique American experiment in representative government. At Mount Vernon, too, Washington and his guests discussed how best to secure the success and well-being of the United States. Here was a place to contemplate "what the nation, at its best, might be." Following George and Martha Washington's deaths, the estate passed to four successive heirs, the last of whom deeded it to the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association in 1860. While still in private hands, the property nonetheless attracted thousands of visitors each year, most of whom arrived after a fifteen-mile overland trek from Washington, D.C. With the establishment of regular steamboat access in the 1850s, the numbers swelled to ten thousand annually. The public claimed Mount Vernon as its own. In the words of a nineteenth-century Washington family member, "the Nation shares it with us." In a remarkable display of civic religion that testified to the siteís enormous hold on the public imagination, Americans pronounced Mount Vernon sacred ground and made it the nationís most important site of revolutionary memory and inspiration. The sacred ground was, nonetheless, contested ground: visitors criticized the heirs' management of the property; northerners abhorred the persistence of slavery at the estate. As pilgrims contemplated the highest ideals of the Revolution at Washington's home and tomb, they often found their own society wanting. Amid escalating sectional strife in the 1850s, some argued that if Mount Vernon could be saved for the nation, the nation might be preserved from ruin. In letters and journals, newspaper and magazine articles, and public speeches, visitors recorded, often in detail and with intense emotion, their varied reactions to the site. Experiencing Mount Vernon presents the most informative of these accounts, as well as selected documents from the Washington owners (beginning with Washington himself, who in 1784 prematurely wrote Lafayette that, at his beloved home, he had "retired from all public employments"). Numerous maps, contemporary images, and annotations complement the texts. This book constitutes the only eyewitness chronicle we have of the Washington estate's ascent to the status of national shrine, and it offers the closest possible evidence of Mount Vernonís singular role in helping forge American national identity.
Download or read book The Mite of Praise written by William Black and published by . This book was released on 1800 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Home of Washington written by Benson John Lossing and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mount Vernon written by Paul Wilstach and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Last Will and Testament of George Washington of Mount Vernon written by George Washington and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book George Washington s Mount Vernon written by Robert F. Dalzell and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2000-02-24 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " ... The details of Washington's 45-year-long campaign to build and perfect Mount Vernon."--Jacket.
Download or read book George Washington at Mount Vernon on the Potomac written by James Hosmer Penniman and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The True George Washington written by Paul Leicester Ford and published by IndyPublish.com. This book was released on 1896 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Ill EDUCATION The father of Washington received his education at Appleby School in England, and, true to his alma mater, he sent his two elder sons to the same school. His death when George was eleven prevented this son from having the same advantage, and such education as he had was obtained in Virginia. His old friend, and later enemy, Rev. Jonathan Boucher, said that George, like most people thereabouts at that time, had no education than reading, writing and accounts which he was taught by a convict servant whom his father bought for a schoolmaster; but Boucher managed to include so many inaccuracies in his account of Washington, that even if this statement were not certainly untruthful in several respects, it could be dismissed as valueless. Born at Wakefield, in Washington parish, Westmoreland, which had been the home of the Wash- ingtons from their earliest arrival in Virginia, George was too young while the family continued there to attend the school which had been founded in that parish by the gift of four hundred and forty acres from some early patron of knowledge. When the boy was about three years old, the family removed to Washington, as Mount Vernon was called before it was renamed, and dwelt there from 1735till 1739, when, owing to the burning of the homestead, another remove was made to an estate on the Rappahannock, nearly opposite Fredericksburg. Here it was that the earliest education of George was received, for in an old volume of the Bishop of Exeter's Sermons his name is written, and on a flyleaf a note in the handwriting of a relative who inherited the library states that this autograph of George Washington's name is believed to be the earliest specimen of his handwriting, when he was probably not more than eight or nine years old. During t...
Download or read book The Home of Washington at Mount Vernon written by James Albert Wineberger and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mount Vernon written by Paul Wilstach and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Illustrated Handbook of Mount Vernon written by Mount Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
