Mount Vernon Wharf

Mount Vernon Wharf is a wharf in Fairfax County, Northern Virginia, Virginia. Mount Vernon Wharf is situated nearby to Washington Family Tomb, as well as near the protected area Mount Vernon Estate & Gardens.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Mount Vernon Estate & Gardens and Washington Family Tomb.

Mount Vernon Estate & Gardens

Protected area

Photo: Ken Lund, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Mount Vernon is the former residence and plantation of George Washington, a Founding Father, commander of the Continental Army in the Revolutionary War, and the first president of the United States, and his wife, Martha.

Washington Family Tomb

Tomb

Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.

Washington Family Tomb is situated 760 feet north of Mount Vernon Wharf.

Piscataway Park

Park

Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.

Piscataway Park is a National Park Service–protected area located 20 miles southwest of downtown Washington, D.C. in and around Accokeek, Maryland. It protects the National Colonial Farm, Marshall Hall, and the Accokeek Creek Site. Piscataway Park is situated 2 miles south of Mount Vernon Wharf.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Mount Vernon and Woodlawn.

Mount Vernon

Photo: Carol M. Highsmith, Public domain.

Mount Vernon is a district in Fairfax County, Virginia, situated on the Potomac River. It takes its name from the country home and plantation of George Washington, the first president of the United States of America.

Woodlawn

Village

Photo: Ser Amantio di Nicolao, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Woodlawn is a census-designated place in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States. The population as of the 2010 census was 20,804. It was carved out of the Mount Vernon CDP beginning with the 2010 census, from the west it goes from Fort Belvoir to Little Hunting Creek stretching along U.S. Route 1 on the south and Huntley Meadows Park on the north. Woodlawn is situated 2½ miles northwest of Mount Vernon Wharf.

Gum Springs

Neighborhood

Photo: Ser Amantio di Nicolao, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Gum Springs is a community in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States in Hybla Valley, along Route 1. The African American community, the oldest in the county, was established in 1833 by West Ford, a freedman who had been manumitted by Hannah Bushrod Washington, in 1805. Gum Springs is situated 2½ miles north of Mount Vernon Wharf.

Mount Vernon Wharf

Type: Wharf
Category: transportation
Location: Fairfax County, Northern Virginia, Virginia, South, United States, North America
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Latitude

38.70484° or 38° 42′ 17″ north

Longitude

-77.08803° or 77° 5′ 17″ west

Elevation

3 feet (1 metre)

Open location code

87C4PW36+WQ

GeoNames ID

4774784

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