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Wharf at Mount Vernon

Mount Vernon Reenactor

A wharf extending into the Potomac River less than 300 yards
from the mansion at Mount Vernon now serves excursion boats
who bring tourists to the estate.  During Washington's life,
however, sailing ships docked at the estate's wharf, with tobacco
and other products loaded for shipment back to Europe after
supplies have been brought from overseas and from major
American ports.

 

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This site is provided as a service to Scouts and Scouters by the Colonial District, NCAC, BSA, which includes George Washington's Mount Vernon.  Although not an official site of the NCAC, BSA, or Mount Vernon, the site is maintained by Tom Baerwald, who has been appointed by the NCAC to direct the Mount Vernon Encampment, so information should be reasonably accurate.