Mount Vernon

How To Use Mount Vernon In A Sentence

• Sometime in the early eighteen hundreds, they trekked to the flat plain between the Ohio River and Lake Erie and settled in Mount Vernon, which was then a few small buildings in a forest of tall trees. A Renegade History of the United States
• In 1772 he had his portrait painted for the first time, and Charles Willson Peale executed the work at Mount Vernon. George Washington’s First War
• Mount Vernon Director James Rees said the term "presidential library" could mislead people into believing that the Mount Vernon library will receive federal funding, as modern presidential libraries do through their association with the National Archives. The Seattle Times
• 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.
• Assured that the Virginia frontier was safe from French attack, Washington left the army in 1758 and returned to Mount Vernon, directing his attention toward restoring his neglected estate.
• In 1853, Louisa Dalton Bird Cunningham was aboard a steamer on the Potomac sailing from Philadelphia to her plantation in South Carolina when she saw Mount Vernon in a shambles.
• He spent less time at Ferry Farm as he grew older, often taking trips north to visit his half-brother, Lawrence, at Little Hunting Creek (later known as Mount Vernon). George Washington's First Home
• This action, for a moment, revived the old controversy, and its opponents made much of the fact that there was no bathtub at Mount Vernon, or at Monticello, and that all the Presidents and other magnificoes of the past had got along without any such monarchical luxuries. Is H.L. Mencken Alive and Well at the NYT? « Isegoria
• It was days later when Mel visited Margreet's tomb at the Mount Vernon crematory.
• Lagan Bayomobo, a 13-year-old A.B. Davis Middle School student, will represent Mount Vernon in the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington D.C. By spelling the word cravat correctly Legan was able to secure his fate an be declared the winner of the district spelling bee. The Hall Monitor