Monday, September 26, 2016
Today’s adventures began at George Washington’s Mount Vernon home with a guided mansion tour.
This marks the site of the 200-year old slave cemetery. The marker reads
In memory of the Afro Americans
Who served as slaves at Mount Vernon
This monument marking their burial ground
Dedicated September 21, 1983
Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association
I love a good door and this one leads to the ice house.
Slave women did the laundry here in the Wash House by hand six days a week, plunging it in boiling water and scrubbing it by hand with soap made of lye.
In the Clerk’s Quarters resided the gentleman who acted as Washington’s business agent, copying and recording letters and keeping books.
The kitchen was separate from the main house but all of the Washingtons’ meals were prepared here. There was a lot to see and do in Mount Vernon.
Following the tour was lunch and discovery at the Steven F. Udvar Hazy Center in Virginia.
Walker’s group made their next stop at the Franciscan Monastery of the Holy Land. It’s another free attraction and boasts beautiful gardens, a peaceful Monastery church and relics of Holy Land shrines.
We have to look all the way in the back on the left to see Walker.
That night they had dinner at the Pentagon Mall where there was time to shop and take advantage of multiple options for food.
They walked around at the Pentagon Memorial
and ended with the Air Force Memorial.
They journeyed back to the hotel and then it was lights out after another full day.
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