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Mount Vernon is the former residence and plantation of George Washington, ... The estate contained 8,000 acres (3,200 ha) when George Washington lived there. [10]
Sarah Johnson (Mount Vernon) Sarah Johnson (September 29, 1844 – January 25, 1920) was an African American woman who was born into slavery at Mount Vernon, George Washington's estate in Fairfax, Virginia. She worked as a domestic, cleaning and caring for the residence. During the process, she became an informal historian of all of the mansion ...
Sarah Johnson lived as an enslaved and a free person on Mount Vernon, and lived there for over 50 years and became a farm owner and a member of the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association. Christopher Steele was a house servant who, after working many years, escaped the plantation, but returned to Washington on his death bed.
Ona " Oney " Judge Staines (c. 1773 – February 25, 1848) was a slave owned by the Washington family, first at the family's plantation at Mount Vernon and later, after George Washington became president, at the President's House in Philadelphia, then the nation's capital city. [1] In her early twenties, Judge absconded, becoming a fugitive ...
Hercules Posey (c. 1748 – May 15, 1812) was a slave owned by George Washington, at his plantation Mount Vernon in Virginia. "Uncle Harkless," as he was called by George Washington Parke Custis, served as chief cook at the Mansion House for many years. In November 1790, Hercules was one of eight enslaved Africans brought by President ...
[6] [7] [8] Washington wrote of Mount Vernon that the ten miles of shoreline at his estate were “one entire fishery.” [2] [9] [10] The fishery was originally intended to help feed the hundreds of slaves who lived on the Mount Vernon plantation, but Washington soon realized that the fishery would also provide a lucrative business opportunity ...
Portrait of West Ford in 1859, by Benson John Lossing. West Ford (c. 1784 – 1863) was the caretaker and manager of Mount Vernon, which had been the home of George Washington. Ford also founded Gum Springs, Virginia near Mount Vernon. He was a man of mixed-race, and possibly of Washington family descent. [1][2]
The new library is 45,000 square feet (4,200 m 2) in a three-story building located on a 15-acre (6.1 ha) plot of land across the street from Mount Vernon's main entrance. [2] The general library contains thousands of books, newspapers, pamphlets, microforms, electronic resources, maps, photographs, and periodicals belonging to Washington. [3]