The place where George Washington was buried was in state of despair for several years and government refused to take over his estate and turn it in to national

The place where George Washington was buried was in state of despair for several years and government refused to take over his estate and turn it in to national monument. If it wouldn't have been due to local ladies association who ran the campaign to save and preserve it through donations, place would have been even overrun by new developments. Same thing happened to John Adams's estate. It is interesting to see this in US because if you go to Russia or China or South Korea, governments have gone to extra-ordinary length to produce monumental structures to preserve their "father" of the nation.