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 ... Essential gardening tips no matter where you live Jenna Phipps house renovations: Replacing windows in an abandoned ...

A piece of George Washington's original Mount Vernon estate has sold for $50 million ... property also includes a 2,600-square-foot guest house, carriage house and a studio apartment.

When George Washington was a boy ... more than 300 enslaved African-Americans lived on Mount Vernon’s plantation. The main house has a veranda with sweeping views of thick woodland in Maryland ...

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 ...

George Washington was the first president of the US. He's widely-regarded as the father of the country. Here's a look at the typical schedule he stuck to when he was at his Mount Vernon plantation.

Continuous excavation at Mount Vernon shows Washington's entrepreneurial ... D.C. Conjectural drawing of George Washington's house. Washington lived at Ferry Farm from age 6 until his early ...

George Washington died at age 67 in the big family bed on the second floor of Mount Vernon, on December 14, 1799. He was exhausted; a sudden inflammation of the throat stopped his breathing.

When companies wanted to build an oil tank farm across the Potomac in the 1950s, a woman named Frances Payne Bolton bought ...