Mount Vernon, memorable as the residence and the burial-place of General Washington, is on the right bank of the Potomac, in Virginia, 15 miles below Washington. In 1856 the mansion and surrounding property were saved from the auctioneer's hammer, and secured as a national possession by the Ladies' Mount Vernon Association, assisted principally by
Edward Everett.—Mount Vernon has given its name to a number of places in the United States, the most important of which is a city, the capital of Knox county, Ohio, on the Vernon River, 44 miles by rail NNE. of Columbus. It contains many handsome residences, and the river affords ample water-power for a number of mills and manufactories of doors and sashes, furniture, machinery, &c. Pop. (1890) 6016.