The Women Who Saved Mount Vernon 

Thank you for sharing! We are all delighted that we could provide you with such a meaningful experience at Washington’s beloved estate. Lots has changed since the 70s and we'd love for you to come and check it out!

I really hope I get to make it to see this beautiful place!I'm going to have to start putting more effort and make it a point to make myself make it there..this is history that I don't want to miss out on.

How exciting, Diane. Yes, no doubt your father would have been delighted to know this. I can only imagine your sadness he never knew...I'm sorry. I discovered last year Lady Diana's family are also distant cousins to our President.

@@janepatterson6779 Yes, I am a Spencer descendant also - the Spencer family upholds their relationship to the Washingtons. It made me sick when Princess Diana was killed in that automobile accident. She was just getting her life back together, and that had to happen. What a shame - Diane.

Can it be discussed with her the property wasn't going untamed purposefully, west Ford took care of the land before they came along and it was under his contribution the ladies was able to restore it .

Anne Washington Wright is my 9th Great Grandmother who married Francis Wright.

My Mother, Sister and I also took a trip to Virginia to visit family before what we first thought we were related through marriage to George Washington untill this year of 2020 I contacted my 3rd cousin to help me in confirming a different ancester on confusion on the family and tree and she has a website which listed the connections of the Washington and Wright family connection following a number of other surnames. Mine is from Wright, Young, McCrary, and Battle to the Hamptons of Alabama.

It's a gift that we should never take for granted. A platform for us to tell the very best stories of the Washingtons, Mount Vernon, and all who lived there. We're proud to be part of the continuing legacy.

Amazing history it is!

Mr. Washington was a self-made man to say the least. However, to become the essential man he was, ✨& Miss Martha Dandridge’s care are just as worthy of adulation and reverence. For any mature woman to recognize nobility, she had to be one. Miss Washington was a brilliant woman 🌺

Mount Vernon belonged to Martha before George got involved in it.

Hi Sandra, thank you for your kind message. We look forward to welcoming you this fall!

I've always said that the story behind saving Mt Vernon should have been made into a miniseries. The chain of events that the newly formed Mt Vernon Ladies Association had to endure is nothing short of amazing. Included are really one of the first movement for Women's Liberation, preserving a legendary American, Civil War, and love story between the caretakers. Maybe one day I will see this story transferred to the screen.

That is a wonderful idea👍 I would watch as well as purchase the series. Get a hold of Mel Gibson if you can. I'll bet he'd do it.🤗

Agree, an exciting mini series! But it would be difficult to find anyone in Hollywood willing to take part in it since most "entertainers," and I use the word loosely, object to our American history finding it racist and distasteful. Or, they would be more likely to participate if they can change the truth to lies. What a pity..such a marvelous story to be told about inspiring, patriotic American women!!!!

You mean helped invade.

...i never thought of it, i visited Mount Vernon many years ago, it Is comfortable, the stairs woodwork Is so beautiful. I loved the rooms and furniture. I think that big front porch facing the Potomac Is the best reward anybody can have to relax, of course during fall and Summer specially.

@@militzamadrid462 born n raised in Philadelphia. I love to here about our former presidents home. He also had a summer home in germantown, Philadelphia pa lol. What an interesting story. Peace

Even though I lived in Maryland for 35 years, sadly I never visited Mount Vernon.

What harmony? Washington built his estate on the backs of slaves that he didn't provide enough food or clothing for. He also ensured they were beaten or whipped when they stepped out of line. All of the first 5 Presidents of the United States were slaveholders just like him, except for John Adams. There's your founding fathers for you.

I meant the natural beauty that you experience today when visiting. Not to dismiss slavery at all!!

Thanks for watching! If you want to learn more about the woman who lead this movement, Ann Pamela Cunningham we highly suggest this video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-bOMM_Oc3Jqo.html

Amen!

Kimberly Bates , we must be distantly related ! I am a direct descendant of GWs sister. Proud of my American heritage. My grandfather was a Texan, yet served in the British Royal Navy. England and America forever entwined ❤️

Thank you Fred for your kind words.

yes and yet unlike many historic mansions, Mount Vernon is very homey.

It is well worth the trip, I hope you get to visit. So much history in that area.

Good for you, Alex!!!

Lee gorsuch .... it is wonderful to see!

Along with the histories of the enslaved people who built Mount Vernon.

I agree he should be in every classroom! Without him there wouldn't be no U.S.A. and as far as slavery Washington new it was bad and he freed he's slaves! God bless Washington and Trump as well!!!!

@Run Gunn From every account, they loved and adored him.

@Run Gunn By all accounts they did. Why can't you face that? You are only thinking of a principal that has changed meaning - you need to start thinking of human beings. Human nature does not change. Washington's slaves had bonafide human relationships with him, his wife and his family and by all accounts, they adored him. Honestly, had I been a slave of his, I would have admired him greatly! You are not seeing the human side of this.

@Run Gunn Run - I am sure that some were unhappy. You have to understand that black people were not considered fully human. Understand? They were not considered fully human, much less peers. You seem outraged that people would have treated their equals in a way that would make them slaves. They were not considered fully human, much less equals. Considering this, they were treated well. You have to educate yourself on this. On the other hand the rest of the world's slave owners were people considered their slaves fully human, just subject to them - this has happened in every society and county the world over and the one place it is still prevalent is Africa. Did you know that warring tribes in Africa took the losers of these wars and sold them to Arab slave traders, so sold them to North, Central and South American buyers? Where is your outrage about that?

@Run Gunn I didn't say that I'd be okay with being a slave - that I would enjoy it, etc. I would admire an admirable person. Did you know that in the Roman world, half the population were slaves?

John C Fremont declared martial law in Missouri and freed the slaves.Lincloln replaced him and rescinded the order because if Missouri and Kentucky had seceded(not to mention Maryland and Delaware)The South would've probably won.So Lincoln played politics and waited until General Lee's defeat at Gettysburg to enact the Emancipation Proclamation,but only in States that seceded.

Clint. . .you are a little off! South wouldn't have won is incorrect, With MD and DE in the Confederacy, D.C. would be 80 miles into the South! Also, find the Battle of Sharpsburg AKA Antietam aftermath! AL's EP was after that (9-62), Gettysburg was (7-63)!

+scott marquiss I said if Missouri and Kentucky (not to mention Maryland and Delaware)had seceded,the South would've probably won.Slaveholders in these States that remained loyal to the Union thought they would get to keep their slaves.It was a kick in the balls with the 13th Amendment freeing all slaves (except in Indian Territory) for Union loyalist slaveholders.

Yes, and his speech was 2 hours long.

I’m sure his slaves would too

@@suzyrottencrotch5132 your right.

Yes, President Washington and Martha I believe would be touched beyond words.."Well done, Ladies, well done, bravo"! (Leave it to American women to get the job done beautifully and correctly.)

@@suzyrottencrotch5132 No doubt some took pride in their hard work, I hope. They are the people who built it and kept it up, right. "Shares" actually and rightfully belonged to them after slavery was abolished...just saying.

Jane Patterson oh they got participation trophy’s ?

Trojanette83 I understand the context, and am a Brit. It was still a rather thoughtless remark. This is considered a magnificent place even by people who are quite well-travelled.

Mansion built on manors in England are called cottages and the fact is the Mt. Vernon is a very nice farm house. It is not a castle.

I'd prefer a Juneteenth to be a public holiday and a public holiday celebrating Native Americans.

igoski1 you are ignorant

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His throat swelled shut - it was a very bad death. Poor man.

@@wendyjones6077 He could have survived if his Doctor's hadn't drained 40% of his blood, which made him weak. Doctor's thought blood letting was the cure for everything in those days.

@@JENDALL714 Yes, I have read that the doctors didn't want to drain more but he mage a gesture insisting that they do it. Poor man. I have seen inflamed tonsils swelling a throat shut lanced on television bringing instant relief with immediat draining. "The latest science" isn't always all its cracked up to be. I hope they gave him enough morphine to knock him out before he suffered too much.

It was probably the blood loss that killed him

We were also able to see the Mausoleum where they both are buried on the same property.

You can visit us virtually: www.mountvernon.org/virtualtour

faulltw .....have you been there? I would suggest you go see it and then make your comments.

@@kathychick4340 I don’t think I was being disrespectable. Based on what I have seen it is sad to think there may not be much of the original structure left. I have been to many other historic sites where this was the case. Try Decaf.

no - quite a lot of it was saved

@@MTknitter22 I guess I will have to take your word for it.

One wonders how society can live alongside slavery in today's world. You know where many of the products you buy come from don't you? Slavery has been interwoven into the fabric of mankind. Native Americans had slaves that included black and white people and they've been heavily romanticized. There were prosperous black slave owners. Both those groups supported and found for the south during the civil war. Why cherry pick what slavery upsets you? 2/3 of the slaves on MT Vernon were from Martha's first husband's estate. Neither she nor Washington could free them them under the laws of that time. Not only did Washington free his slaves in his will he left them money that lasted several decades. If you were a wealthy plantation owner back then you would have been a slave owner. History is complicated dude . Just like in 300 years from now our time will be getting ranked over the coals for things we find socially acceptable today.

He was the greatest racist slaver America has ever known!

​@@stikupartist3698 George Washington was a beautiful man. When you're ready to talk about the prosperous black slave owners and the native American slave owners who had many black and white slaves I'll be here. 😂

@NeTxGrl ah, yes, the prosperous black slave owners. The white man's go-to argument when justifying chattel slavery and indigenous genocide.

​@@stikupartist3698 you call it a go to argument but it's a fact. Just like your brethren in Africa were catching and caging their fellow blacks and leaving them in cages along the shore to be picked up. The natives warred and committed genocide amongst each other. MLK was no saint. He was an orgy attending prick (you know he had a sex addiction problem) and he watched women getting raped during the orgies and did nothing about it. Yet we gotta honor him 😀. Are you ready to bring him down?