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Alexandria News
Recreate Washington’s Famous Crossing and Win Big at Mount Vernon!
Mount Vernon is challenging families, students, and creative minds to recreate Washington Crossing the Delaware for a chance to win…
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Trick-or-Treat at George Washington’s Mount Vernon This Halloween—Then Stay for Dinner
Mount Vernon welcomes families Oct. 31 for candy, costumes and colonial entertainment, followed by a kids-eat-free offer at the Mount…
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Alexandria History
Alexandria Map Society Meeting Explores George Washington’s Maps—and the Town He Drew at 17
Mount Vernon historian Alexandra Montgomery explores George Washington’s life with maps at the Alexandria Map Society’s Oct. 27 meeting.
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History
Did George Washington Really Create the American Foxhound? We Asked Mount Vernon.
Did George Washington create the American foxhound? Mount Vernon’s records reveal the history—and a modern champion named George.
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The Return of the Prince: George Washington’s Mount Vernon Welcomes Prince Edward, Duke of Edinburgh
On a summery, picture-postcard perfect first of October, Prince Edward Antony Richard Louis, the Duke of Edinburgh, toured the historic…
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Alexandria News
A British Royal Is Coming to Mount Vernon: Duke of Edinburgh Visits Oct. 1
Prince Edward, the Duke of Edinburgh, will visit George Washington’s Mount Vernon Oct. 1, tour the estate and lay a…
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Mount Vernon’s Colonial Market & Fair Returns Sept. 19–20
Mount Vernon’s Colonial Market & Fair returns Sept. 19–20 with dozens of artisans, handmade goods, demonstrations and an 18th-century marketplace…
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Alexandria News
Take Home a Piece of Mount Vernon: Fall Plant Sale Returns Saturday
Mount Vernon’s Fall Plant and Garden Sale returns Saturday, Sept. 12, with native plants, heirloom varieties and its exclusive General’s…
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Bring the Grandparents: Woodlawn Turns Family History Into a Sunday Adventure
Woodlawn’s Grandparents Day program brings descendant stories, quilts, Smithsonian genealogy experts and family activities together Sept. 13.
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Alexandria News
An Entire Otter Family Just Posed for this Incredible Photo at Huntley Meadows
ALEXANDRIA (FAIRFAX COUNTY), VA – Four wet heads. Four sets of whiskers. And four intensely curious faces arranged almost perfectly…
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