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Lecture Series/Audio

Tony DeRiggio - Mount Vernon Tour
Dining Room (New Room)	3:14
Exterior & view	3:37
Bedrooms & House Guests	2:32
Washington's Bedroom & death	3:19
Washington's Study	3:44
Kitchen	2:04
Washington Family & House expansion	5:13
Landscape Architecture	3:52
Garden & Greenhouse	3:58
Slave Life	7:42
Washington & Slave Ownership[/Inhertance	9:04
Washington's Tombs	1:17
Dennis J. Pogue, Historian	Top
Intro, GW's early life	4:41
GW as "Planter"	2:48
GW transitions from tobacco to grain	2:30
GW as slave owner	1:03
Farming innovations	2:13
Maintaining an "image"	2:34
Examples of successful farming schemes	1:35
Farm buildings	2:57
Flour' Grist mill/innovation	3:46
Other activities; fishery, mules, blacksmith, etc.	4:29
GW's wealth grows through Martha; scope of Mount Vernon	5:34
Slave Holdings	7:33
Distillery/Alcohol taxation	14:11
Conclusion	2:25
	Top
George Mason - overview movie	10:02

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