Name: Georgetown to Mount Vernon
Released: 2016-02-17

Great American Railroad Journeys

S1 · E13 — Georgetown to Mount Vernon

S1:E13 · Georgetown to Mount Vernon

Episodes

15 episodes in this season

Manhattan: Grand Central to Broadway

29 min

Manhattan: Lower East Side to World Trade Center

29 min

Brooklyn to Montauk

29 min

New York City to Garrison

29 min

Poughkeepsie to Albany

29 min

Schenectady to Rochester

29 min

Buffalo to Niagara Falls

29 min

Philadelphia to Atlantic City

29 min

Lancaster to Gettysburg

29 min

E10

Wilmington to Havre de Grace

29 min

E11

Baltimore to Fort McHenry

29 min

E12

Washington DC

29 min

E13

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Georgetown to Mount Vernon

29 min

E14

Manassas to Richmond

29 min

E15

Petersburg to Jamestown

29 min

Great American Railroad Journeys

TV Series

201629m8.3

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Georgetown to Mount Vernon

Season 1 · Episode 13 · Feb 17, 2016

On this leg, Michael soaks up some old-school jazz in Washington's U Street neighbourhood, where the big band jazz king, Duke Ellington, was born and began his career. He also grabs a bite at Ben's Chili Bowl, the legendary diner chosen by President Obama for a snack before his inauguration. He follows his guidebook to the United States Naval Observatory, the nation's timekeeper, where he discovers how and why the railroads established four time zones across the continent in 1883. Heading south to Alexandria, Virginia, Michael explores a former slave market and hears how African Americans were bought and sold. He ends this leg in Mount Vernon, the Palladian home of the nation's first president, George Washington, where he gets into a spot of bother at an archaeological dig.

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Great American Railroad Journeys

TV Series

201629m8.3

Documentary

Now playing

Georgetown to Mount Vernon

Season 1 · Episode 13 · Feb 17, 2016

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