The Pioneer Farm and, in the distance, the 16-sided barn, at Mount Vernon, the home of George Washington, near Mount Vernon, Virginia, in the United States. This area was originally a creek bed, but was filled in over time to make a pasture. The Pioneer Farm demonstrates the kind of crops and how they were grown during George Washington's time. Fences, outbuildings, animal husbandry, and other aspects of the Pioneer Farm are also historically accurate. The Pioneer Farm and most of its major buildings were created in the 1990s.