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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

Above all, Washington was a farmer. On his Mount Vernon estate, in northern Virginia, he grew tobacco and wheat and operated a gristmill. After his second term as president, he built a profitable ...

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.

Above all, Washington was a farmer. On his Mount Vernon estate, in northern Virginia ... John Adams broke the deadlock in the upper house. The meaning of Congress’ vote was clear.