Mount Vernon was the plantation home where George Washington lived as a young man and as an adult. When George took over Mount Vernon he experimented with growing many other crops and stopped growing tobacco. He made five farms from the land he owned. Today, Mount Vernon is a much larger home than it was when George Washington moved into it. While he lived there, he enlarged the house -- adding the large porch with pillars that faces the Potomac River and the large dining room where he was officially notified of his election as the first U.S. President. George Washington had a private study added to the mansion. The master bedroom was also an addition to the original house. Mrs. Washington used the room as her office "...from which she would oversee the household, the laundry and the kitchen, as well as teach her grandchildren and some of the slave children to sew and read." George Washington died in this bedroom. George and Martha Washington are buried in a tomb on the grounds of Mount Vernon. More than 300 slaves lived and worked on the Mount Vernon farms when George Washington died in 1799. Most of the slaves worked in the fields. "Food grown at Mount Vernon was distributed to the slaves and their families and to the Washingtons." Washington taught trades to his slaves, and trained them for jobs. All of the Mount Vernon slaves were set free when Washington died. Some slaves were paid pensions until their deaths. George Washington's home was called Mount Vernon. Many homes had individual names during George Washington's time.