and one shot from Davis's "old British musket" generally brought down "as many of those delicious birds as would supply the larder for a week," said George Washington Parke Custis, Martha ...

Challenges Upon his inauguration as the first president on April 30, 1789, George Washington assumed office under the tenuous circumstances of an untested federal government. The newly established ...

President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration on January 20 will mark the 60th presidential swearing-in ceremony in United ...

Archaeologist Nick Beard was gently pushing aside the hardened dirt in the basement of George Washington’s home at Mount Vernon, Va., last fall when he spotted the mouth of a glass bottle.

Located on the Rappahanock River, Washington would spend most of his childhood there. George was only 11 years old when his father died. Upon his father’s death, the plantation and all its holdings ...

Rarely on display because it is so fragile, Mount Vernon is hosting a special public viewing of President George Washington’s historic inaugural coat.

GEORGE, Wash. - Washington State Patrol responded to a single-car deadly crash on Sunday near George. A 58-year-old man died ...

Archaeologists working on a project to rehabilitate the foundation of George Washington's Mount Vernon, VA home made a stunning discovery when they unearthed two intact bottles of cherries from ...