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Almanzo W. Litchard

He also visited Mount Vernon, the U.S. Treasury, and the Smithsonian Institution during his excursions into town.

American Swedish Historical Museum

The architect, John Nydén, a Swedish-American from Chicago, combined Swedish and American elements by modeling the exterior arcades on those of Mount Vernon.

Ann Pamela Cunningham

Ann Pamela Cunningham (August 15, 1816 Rosemont Plantation, South Carolina - May 1, 1875) is credited with saving George Washington's beloved home Mount Vernon from ruin and neglect.

Bellevue Plantation

During Catherine's years at Bellevue, she became involved in America's first successful preservation effort of Mount Vernon, George Washington's home, through the Mount Vernon Ladies Association.

Catharine Macaulay

She stayed at Mount Vernon with George Washington and his family in 1785; the two continued to correspond about the organisation of the ideal government for the remainder of her life.

Congress of the Confederation

With that simple gesture of acknowledging the first civilian power over the military, he took his leave and returned by horseback the next day to his home and family at Mount Vernon near the colonial river port city on the Potomac River at Alexandria in Virginia.

Easington Gas Terminal

As part of the facility, two RB211-GT61 gas turbines, built by Rolls Royce Energy Systems in Mount Vernon, Ohio, were installed in a £12.7m contract.

Edgardo Coghlan

Coghlin’s work can be found in the collections of the Museo de Arte Moderno, the Museo de Arte in Sinaloa, Mitchel Museum in Mount Vernon, Illinois, the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, Alfredo Guati Rojo National Watercolor Museum and various universities as well as in private collections in Mexico, the United States, Canada, Germany, Greece, the Netherlands, Scotland and Chile.

Hayfield Secondary School

The land that Hayfield Secondary sits on was at one time part of George Washington's Mount Vernon estate.

Ingles Ferry

Period correct livestock were added to the farm in the form of American Milking Devon cattle and Hog Island Sheep from Colonial Williamsburg and Mount Vernon respectively.

Jacob Gabriel

The name change was a decision that came soon after his water baptism on August 14, 2011, in the Skagit River in Mount Vernon, Washington and was organized by Tierra Nueva.

John Ariss

The relationship between the two families was of long standing: Ariss was the great-grandson of Col. Nicholas Spencer of Cople Parish, Westmoreland, who had patented the Mount Vernon estate with his friend Lt. Col. John Washington.

John Freshwater

John Freshwater (born June 22, 1956) is a former science teacher at Mount Vernon Middle School in Mount Vernon, Ohio, who was dismissed by the Board of Education for teaching creationism in a public school, and using a Tesla coil to "mark the shape of the cross into the arms of eighth grade students".

Justa Lindgren

He served as head football coach at Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa from 1902 to 1903 and at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1904—along with Arthur R. Hall, Fred Lowenthal, and Clyde Matthews—and alone in 1906, compiling a record of 14–16–2.

KNLC

Pax TV (now Ion Television) offered to affiliate with KNLC after losing its St. Louis area affiliate, KUMO-LP (channel 51, a repeater of Mount Vernon, Illinois station WPXS), in 2004, but the station also turned it down.

Lawrence County, Missouri

All of Lawrence County is a part of Missouri’s 29th District in the Missouri Senate and is currently represented by Jack Goodman (R-Mount Vernon.

Maine Chance Farm

Elizabeth Arden raced under the nom de course "Mr. Nightingale" until 1943 when she adopted the name Maine Chance Farm from her health spa in Mount Vernon, Maine.

Mount Vernon Ladies' Association

The Mount Vernon Ladies' Association is a non-profit organization that preserves and maintains the Mount Vernon estate originally owned by George Washington.

Mount Vernon North railway station

Mount Vernon railway station served the Mount Vernon area of Glasgow, Scotland on the Glasgow, Bothwell, Hamilton and Coatbridge Railway between Shettleston and Hamilton.

Mount Vernon railway station

Mount Vernon railway station is located in the Mount Vernon area of Glasgow, Scotland.

Mount Vernon, Baltimore

The name derives from the Mount Vernon home of George Washington; the original Washington Monument, a massive pillar commenced in 1815 to commemorate the first president of the United States, is the defining feature of the neighborhood.

Mount Vernon, Illinois

Randy Fenoli, an American television presenter and fashion designer

This event was one of the first disasters to which the American Red Cross responded.

Mount Vernon, Indiana

The town has become a big center for plastics, with the manufacture of Lexan taking place just south of town at the SABIC plant; in addition, Port of Indiana-Mount Vernon, is an important part of the city's industry.

He was unsuccessful in his reelection bid in 1982 losing to Frank McCloskey.

Port of Indiana-Mount Vernon, a major publicly funded riverport, is located just east of Mt. Vernon.

Mount Vernon, Texas

Also hailing from Mt. Vernon is 13 year veteran AFL/NFL offensive lineman Bobby Maples.

Northwestern University Lakefill

The Northwestern University Lakefill is an area of land that was reclaimed from Lake Michigan in 1964-1969 from landfill materials made available by the construction of the Port of Indiana.

Otisco Township, Michigan

In September 1853, Dickson platted the village as Mount Vernon, after Mount Vernon, Virginia, the home of the first U.S. President, George Washington.

Pocket Athletic Conference

The Pocket Athletic Conference was established in 1938 with nine founding schools: Cannelton, Chrisney, Lynnville, Mount Vernon, Owensville, Petersburg, Poseyville, Rockport, and Tell City.

Presidential Classroom

During each one-week visit, students tour different sites in DC, including the State Department, the Capitol, the Supreme Court, Mount Vernon, Washington Monument, Jefferson Memorial, World War II Memorial, and various advocacy organizations, such as the NRA, RNC, DNC, and ACLU

Renfro Valley, Kentucky

Renfro Valley is a neighborhood located just off Interstate 75 in Mount Vernon, a city in Rockcastle County, Kentucky, United States.

Richard G. Salomon

Richard Georg Salomon (born 22 April 1884 in Berlin, Germany - died 3 February 1966 in Mount Vernon, Ohio) was an historian of eastern European medieval history and historian of the Episcopal Church in the United States, who taught at the University of Hamburg in Germany and at Kenyon College and its Episcopal Church seminary Bexley Hall in Ohio USA.

Robert O. Fink

Robert Orwill Fink (4 November 1905, Geneva, Indiana – 17 December 1988, Mount Vernon, Ohio) was a papyrologist with a special interest in Roman military papyri.

Rye whiskey

Today Heaven Hill, Sazerac Company, Jim Beam, and Wild Turkey, among others, also produce rye whiskeys, as does a distillery at Mount Vernon, the home of George Washington, which sells a version of the rye Washington made.

Sambucus canadensis

Research on elderberries is being conducted at the University of Missouri's South West Center in Mount Vernon and at the Missouri State Fruit Experiment Station in Mountain Grove.

Sandyhills

It is in close proximity to other districts of Glasgow namely Baillieston and Mount Vernon.

Sarah Josepha Hale

Hale advocated for the preservation of George Washington's Mount Vernon plantation, as a symbol of patriotism that both the Northern and Southern United States could all support.

St. Robert Bellarmine Catholic Church

The church and school buildings on the St. Robert Bellarmine campus are modeled after colonial American buildings, including Monticello, Independence Hall, Mount Vernon and the library at the University of Virginia.

The rectory, built in 1967, was modeled after George Washington's home at Mount Vernon.

Stone County, Missouri

All of Stone County is a part of Missouri’s 29th District in the Missouri Senate and is currently represented by Jack Goodman (R-Mount Vernon).

Thomas McGraw

Tam McGraw died of a suspected heart attack at his home in Mount Vernon, Glasgow.

Thomas Prichard Rossiter

As part of his research for the works, Rossiter visited Mount Vernon in June of 1858, and soon afterward published an article on Washington's life and the state of his Mount Vernon estate.

United States House of Representatives elections in Iowa, 2008

Democrat Dave Loebsack of Mount Vernon, a former political science professor at Cornell College, the incumbent, was also completing his first term.

Ware v. Hylton

Oral argument in the case was reenacted at Mount Vernon in 2011, with U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Samuel Alito presiding.


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