Southwood

Places of Interest

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

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Mount Vernon High School

School

Photo: Ser Amantio di Nicolao, CC BY 3.0.

Mount Vernon High School is a public high school in the Fairfax County Public Schools system located in Mount Vernon, Virginia. It is relevant to dependent children living on-post at Fort Belvoir.

Places in the Area

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

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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.

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 2 miles northeast of Southwood.

Southwood

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