The Government declined to buy or preserve Washington's Virginia estate so the The Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association was set up to buy it and restore the now iconic home
TIL Most of Los Angeles' original Chinatown was razed to make way for Union Station and the 101 freeway in the 1940s. Today, the Garnier Building in the El Pueblo district, now home to the Chinese American Museum, is the only surviving remnant of Old Chinatown