An Afternoon at Mount Vernon in Washington D.C.

When LeGrand and I spent some wonderful hours at Mount Vernon, we started to understand how carefully the Lord put remarkable people in positions to create a climate of freedom and democracy in which the Restoration could flourish. We gained a love for the great general who helped those ragtag rebels win the Revolutionary War and became the first President of the United States.

It reminds me of Maggie's experience in Primary. Sister Susanne Johnson was teaching the Sunbeams about the baptism of Jesus. She showed the children a picture of the holy event and asked, "Can any of you name this man who baptized Jesus?"
"Oh yes!" Maggie hollered, "That is George the Washington."



Original burial site of the Washington Family




Steps to the wharf on the Polomac from the Washington property.  At times during the year, everyone working at the farm would quit what they were doing and fish for weeks.  The fishery became one of the most important "crops" of the estate.




Washington was eager to try new techniques and advances on his farm such as breeding mules.





Farm Estate of George Washington:  Mount Vernon
"I had rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world." George Washington