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United States. The Mount Vernon Seminary and College was a private women's college in Washington, D.C. It was purchased by George Washington University in 1999, and became the Mount Vernon Campus of The George Washington University.
For over 120 years, Mount Vernon Seminary and, later, Mount Vernon College were private institutions for the education of women in D.C. In 1997, Mount Vernon College became part of GW; its grounds are now known as the Mount Vernon Campus. The following is a chronology of key events in the history of Mount Vernon.
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As the first school of higher education available to women in Washington, D.C, Mount Vernon Seminary and College has an important place in this city’s heritage, in higher education, and in American women’s history.
The Navy took possession of Mount Vernon Seminary, a girls’ school in tony upper northwest Washington, adding hastily erected barracks to house 4,000 female code breakers. | D.C. Department of ...
The Mount Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union ( MVLA) is a non-profit organization that preserves and maintains the Mount Vernon estate originally owned by the family of George Washington. [1] The association was founded in 1853 by Ann Pamela Cunningham of South Carolina, and is the oldest national historic preservation organization as well ...
Jan 2, 1998 · By Valerie Strauss. January 2, 1998 at 12:00 a.m. EST. Mount Vernon College, which has been independently educating women in the District for more than 120 years, will become a women's...
By the fall of 1998, the first class of George Washington freshmen women began classes on the Mount Vernon campus as part of the new The George Washington University at Mount Vernon College. In May 1999 the last Mount Vernon College class graduated; and on June 30 the campus officially became The George Washington University at Mount Vernon ...
