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Mount Vernon is a city in Grant County, Oregon, United States. Its post office was established in 1877 and named after a black stallion that belonged to settler David W. Jenkins. The stallion's stable , a small stone building, is still standing in a field on the north side of U.S. Highway 26 about 2.2 miles (3.5 km) east of the main ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 16 January 2025. Plantation estate of George Washington For other uses, see Mount Vernon (disambiguation). United States historic place Mount Vernon U.S. National Register of Historic Places U.S. National Historic Landmark Virginia Landmarks Register The Mount Vernon mansion in April 2020 Location ...
The Mount Vernon School (MV) is a private, independent, coeducational day school in Sandy Springs, [2] Georgia, United States, with an Atlanta postal address. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] It was founded in 1972. The Mount Vernon School was formerly known as Mount Vernon Presbyterian School ( MVPS).
Mount Vernon is the county seat of and the most populous city in Skagit County, Washington, United States. A central location in the Skagit River Valley , the city is located 51 miles (82 km) south of the U.S.–Canada border and 60 miles (97 km) north of Seattle .
Cornell College is a private liberal arts college in Mount Vernon, Iowa. Originally the Iowa Conference Seminary, the school was founded in 1853 by George Bryant Bowman. [5] Four years later, in 1857, the name was changed to Cornell College, in honor of iron tycoon William Wesley Cornell.
Mount Vernon is known for its athletic success in high school basketball. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] The Bulldogs' boys basketball team found major success under Mac Fraser , head coach from 1986–2001, who was elected into the Washington Interscholastic Basketball Coaches Association Hall of Fame in 2005.
Mount Vernon's athletic teams are nicknamed the Wildcats and the school's colors are Maroon and Gray. The Wildcats compete in the Pocket Athletic Conference (Indiana) in the following sports: baseball, boys and girls basketball, boys and girls cross country, football, golf, boys and girls soccer, softball, boys and girls swimming, boys and girls tennis, track and field, volleyball, and wrestling.
On October 29, 1955, [4] the voters of the district approved establishing a junior college to accompany the high school. Mt. Vernon Community College operated on the high school campus and several adjacent buildings until its expansion as Rend Lake College (a part of the Illinois Community College System) and its 1970 relocation to its present main campus in Ina, Illinois. [5]