Visiting Mount Vernon could be seen as a right of passage for Americans. Be it on your eighth-grade field trip or as a ...

Curators at George Washington’s Mount Vernon estate sought out rare 18th-century wallpaper for an ongoing restoration project.

Mount Vernon, the Virginia home of George Washington on the banks of ... which formed in the years leading up to the Civil War to save Washington's house, kept it open to both sides during the ...

One of them is Mount Vernon, George Washington's home in Alexandria ... including the blacksmith shop, the spinning house, the stables, the smokehouse, and more. Costumed demonstrators are ...

The slaves of George Washington must have found the hours ... in their private lives than those residing at the Mansion House (Mount Vernon), where personal servants had to be available well ...

The first president realized that working with Congress – not alone or against it – was the best way to actually create an ...

The statue is on loan from George Washington’s Mount Vernon estate and will stay in Tallahassee for the next year. A statue of George Washington was put on display in the Florida Capitol on ...

Situated on the broad Potomac, Mount Vernon was one of ... Like his fellow Virginians in the House of Burgesses, Washington became increasingly disillusioned with George III and his colonial ...

But his marriage to a wealthy widow named Martha Dandridge Custis in 1759 all but guaranteed he wouldn't miss out on raising a house ... 7. George Washington’s Mount Vernon home was saved ...

Presidents Day, a federal holiday honoring U.S. presidents, is Feb. 17. What to know about the day, and presidents Washington and Lincoln.