• as superintendent of Mount Vernon starting in 1937, Charles Wall would ride on horseback to inspect the grounds, which he saw restored to the way they were in the days of George Washington?
• Harrison Howell Dodge, who served for 52 years as the resident superintendent of Mount Vernon, often slept in the house as a night guard?

Facts on topics related to Mount Vernon

George Washington

• Aaron Burr, Alexander Hamilton, and George Washington all visited the Yelverton Inn (pictured) in Chester, New York?
• American Revolutionary War officer William Stacy narrowly escaped death by burning at the stake and was given a gold snuff box by George Washington?
• George Washington and James Fenimore Cooper visited the springs at Brookside, an early resort in Ballston Spa, New York?
• George Washington called Dismal Swamp a "glorious paradise" and now part of it is a North Carolina state park?
• George Washington gave Martha Parke Custis a miniature of himself as a wedding gift, and later left her 1/32 of his estate in his will?
• George Washington served as a justice in the court of Alexandria City Hall in Alexandria when it was a courthouse?
• George Washington's threshing barn was an early example of an American round barn?
• George Washington's step-granddaughter Elizabeth Parke Custis married Thomas Law in 1796 at Hope Park plantation in Fairfax County, Virginia?
• Napoleon once commissioned Louis-Marcelin de Fontanes to write an éloge on George Washington?
  
• neoclassical Italian sculptor Giuseppe Ceracchi portrayed George Washington with a Roman haircut and a toga?

Alexandria, Virginia

• George Washington served as a justice in the court of Alexandria City Hall in Alexandria when it was a courthouse?
• Bayne-Fowle House, a National Register of Historic Places registered property located at 811 Prince Street in Alexandra, Virginia, United States, served as a military hospital in 1864?
• James D. Hutton was a pioneer photographer of the northern Rockies who betrayed the plans for the Federal defense of Alexandria, Virginia, to the Confederacy early in the American Civil War?
• Samuel Wilbert Tucker organized an African-American civil rights sit-in at the Alexandria, Virginia, public library as early as 1939?
• St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in the Old Town area of Alexandria, Virginia, was designed by Benjamin Latrobe, the second architect of the United States Capitol?

Potomac River

• Washington, D.C.'s location as the U.S. capital on the Potomac River was decided by Congress, with passage of the Residence Act of 1790?
• Difficult Run is a tributary of the Potomac River in the United States?
• Jefferson Pier in Washington, D.C. was a survey monument for the first meridian of the United States, replacing one set by Thomas Jefferson in 1793, and that it was later used as a mooring bollard on the Potomac River?
• Piscataway Park was created to prevent development and protect the view across the Potomac River from Mount Vernon?
• in 1880 the United States Congress adjourned so members could watch the single scull race on the Potomac River between Charles E. Courtney and Ned Hanlan?
• the 1910 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Maryland v. West Virginia established the current boundary between the states of Maryland and West Virginia based on a stone set in a river in 1746?
• the Smith Point Light at the mouth of the Potomac River was preceded by four other lighthouses and three lightships at the same site?

Fairfax County, Virginia

• George Washington's step-granddaughter Elizabeth Parke Custis married Thomas Law in 1796 at Hope Park plantation in Fairfax County, Virginia?