- Author
- Gainter, J. Richard.
- Date of Publication
- 1981
dozen miles from the Capital of the United States. It was named
Mount Vernon in 1743 by Lawrence Washington, an elder half brother of
George and, like him, a great-grandson of the original owner, John Washington,
who secured a land grant of 5000 acres in 1674 and called it Washington Planta-
tion. Here