Mount Vernon, Virginia, was the plantation home of the first President of the United States, George Washington. It was built of wood in a neoclassical Georgian architectural style. In 1674, John Washington and Nicholas Spencer came into possession of the land from which Mount Vernon plantation would be carved. When John died in 1677, his son Lawrence, George Washington's grandfather, inherited a bit less than half of the original tract. In 1743, George Washington's half-brother Lawrence Washington rebuilt the home their father Augustine had earlier built on the property. Initially named Epsewasson after a facing creek, the plantation was later renamed in honor of Admiral Edward Vernon, under whom Lawrence had served in the British campaigns against the Spanish in the West Indies.
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