Historical memory, sectional strife, and the American mecca: Mount Vernon, 1783-1853 / Jean B. Lee. c2001.

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Historical memory, sectional strife, and the American mecca: Mount Vernon, 1783-1853 / Jean B. Lee. c2001.

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"This essay examines how and why people from all areas of the United States came to envision Mount Vernon as a place so nationally significant -- indeed, so sacred -- that it had to be preserved and made permanently accessible to every citizen. As a corollary to this proposition, the Washington family could not be trusted with ownership, despite its substantial efforts to maintain the estate and accommodate the multitudes. Because surviving evidence is both plentiful and richly evocative, the memories, rituals, and rhetoric elicited by Mount Vernon likely comprise the best example, except for Washington himself, of how Americans shaped and took sustenance from Revolutionary memory."--p. 3-4.

43, 15 leaves ; 28 cm.

George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon

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George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon

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Mount Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union

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The Mount Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union was founded in 1853 by Ann Pamela Cunningham. The purpose of the Association was to purchase Mount Vernon, the home of George Washington, in order to restore the property and open the grounds to visitors and admirers who desired to see Washington's house and tomb. Ann Pamela Cunningham became interested in the preservation of Mount Vernon when her mother, traveling down the Potomac River in 1853, saw the house in its neglected and dilapidated sta...

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