Mount Vernon - Hardcoverby Patrick L. O'Neill (Author) lmages of America: Mount Vernon takes a visual excursion through the history of the home and neighborhood of our first president of the United States, George Washington. Washington's ancestors came to Northern Virginia over 320 years ago, and by 1786, he had acquired an 8,000 plus acre tract of land surrounding Mount Vernon. Washington divided this acreage into five farms, which were considered his pride and joy. His