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The Fairfax family of Fairfax County, Virginia, lived in a splendid brick mansion called Belvoir on the Potomac River four miles downstream from Mount Vernon. In his youth, George Washington developed lifelong friendships with several members of the Fairfax family and established social connections that would propel him to prominence as a young ...
- Lord Fairfax · George Washington's Mount Vernon
Thomas, Baron Cameron, sixth Lord Fairfax, was George...
- Belvoir · George Washington's Mount Vernon
The estate and manor of the prominent Fairfax family of...
- Owners of Mount Vernon · George Washington's Mount Vernon
Although George Washington leased Mount Vernon from Lawrence...
- Lord Fairfax · George Washington's Mount Vernon
Mount Vernon is the former residence and plantation of George Washington, a Founding Father, commander of the Continental Army in the Revolutionary War, and the first president of the United States, and his wife, Martha. An American landmark, the estate lies on the banks of the Potomac River in Fairfax County, Virginia, approximately 15 miles ...
- 500 acres (200 ha)
- December 19, 1960
- 1758; 265 years ago
- Palladian
25 de ene. de 2018 · Over the next four decades, Washington renovated Mount Vernon’s main house into a two-and-a-half story, 11,028-square-foot stately home with twenty-one rooms. He oversaw almost every detail ...
Explore Washington's relationship with the Fairfaxes—a family that would profoundly influence the direction of Washington's life. In 1741, William Fairfax moved his family to an imposing mansion on the shores of the Potomac River, just three miles from what would one day become George Washington's Mount Vernon.