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Slave cabin, Mount Vernon. Sarah Johnson was born on September 29, 1844, to Hannah Parker, an enslaved teenager who was owned by Jane Charlotte Washington, but sent to Mount Vernon, which was managed by her son Augustine Washington, who would ultimately sell the property to the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association in Sarah's lifetime [11] [12] Augustine Washington, who paid for the black midwife ...
Atop a ridgeline about 100 metres (330 ft) south of County Road 850S, near the entrance to the Mount Vernon General Electric plant and southwest of Mount Vernon [8 37°54′48″N 87°56′23″W / 37.913333°N 87.939722°W / 37.913333; -87.939722 ( Mount Vernon
Alvin P. Hovey (1821–1891), Union general in the Civil War and Governor of Indiana 1889–1891. Born in Mount Vernon and is buried in Bellefontaine Cemetery. Ann Hovey (1911-2007), born and raised in Mount Vernon, she became an actress, appearing in several B-movies in the 1930s. Anna Byford Leonard (1843–1930), reformer
The Ports of Indiana-Mount Vernon, on the Ohio River, is the seventh-largest inland port complex in the nation. Mechanization of dock technology has altered the number of workers at the port, but Posey County is still the seventh-largest internal port in the United States, based on the tons of materials handled.
The Mount Vernon News is a print newspaper published twice a week in Mount Vernon, Ohio. Since 2020, it is owned by Metric Media LLC, a company reported to engage pay-to-play coverage. [4] Most of the content published by the newspaper since the Metric Media takeover are press releases and submitted content. [4]
Vernon Township was organized in 1836. [2] It was named after Mount Vernon, the plantation home of President George Washington. [3] Vernon Township which includes McCordsville, Fortville and the unincorporated portion of Vernon Township are reported to have a population of 15,615 according to the 2020 census.
Gunter Nezhoda, a recurring and popular competitive bidder in A&E’s long-running show Storage Wars, died Tuesday in Utah six months after being diagnosed with lung cancer. He was 67. His death ...
The Mount Vernon Site, also known as the GE Mound, is a Hopewell site near Mount Vernon in southwest Indiana. The site was discovered and mostly destroyed in 1988 during road construction at a General Electric plastic manufacturing facility.