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Mount Vernon (City of Indiana)

a city of Indiana, the county-seat of Posey co., about 20 miles W. of Evansville. It is situated on lights, an electric street railroad, and several daily newspapers. It has a locomotive works, furnace foundry, Corliss engine works, woolen, flax, twine, flour and saw mills, and manufactories of leather, linseed oil, furniture, etc. Pop. (1910) 9,087; (1920) 9,237.

VERNON, the estate of President Washington, in Fairfax co., resident Washington, Va., on the right bank of the Potomac river; 15 miles S. of Washington. The dwelling is a wooden mansion, 96 feet long, erected on a bluff 200 feet above the river, and commanding an excellent view. The estate, originally named Hunting Creek and comprising 800 acres, was inherited by Washington in 1752 from his brother Lawrence, who had changed the name in honor of his former commander, Admiral Vernon of the British navy. The central part of the house was built by Lawrence, and the wings were added by George. The house and 200 acres of land around it were bought by the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association in 1859 for $200,000, raised in great part through the exertions of Edward Everett, and have been restored as 7 MOUNT WASHINGTON MOVI nearly as possible to their condition in ing of schools of equitation, fa ing from the river to the house the visi- tor passes the plain, brick tomb of Wash- ington, containing, behind an iron grat- ing, two sarcophagi with the remains of the general and his wife, Martha. The home contains an abundance of interest- smaller species of the genus Mus, the larger ones being called rats. The com- mon mouse is dusky-gray above, ashy MOUSE, a popular name for the underneath; the tail being about as long ing from the river to the house the visitor passes the plain, brick tomb of Washington, containing, behind an iron grating, two sarcophagi with the remains of the general and his wife, Martha. The home contains an abundance of interesting relics of which, perhaps, the key of the French Bastille is the most notable.

The room in which Washington died is at the S. end of the first floor, and Mrs.

Washington died in the one immediately above it. The tiles in the piazza were brought from the Isle of Wight. The T courses number four for the first, two for the second, two for the third. Only the School of Equitation gives tuition to officers. The staff consists of a comas the body. The field mouse, which is student officers and enlisted men.