president of George Washington's Mount Vernon, during a recent interview by Washington's marble tomb. "A woman was taking a steamer (on the Potomac). It was the custom of the captain to ring the ...

Visiting Mount Vernon ... Washington family’s 18th-century mansion. The visiting hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. April through ...

Curators at George Washington’s Mount Vernon estate sought out rare 18th-century wallpaper for an ongoing restoration project. The wallpaper was found at the Old York Historical Society in Maine ...

When George ... the house. Inside are rough wooden bunks and brick floors. By the last year of Washington’s life in 1799, more than 300 enslaved African-Americans lived on Mount Vernon’s ...

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.

A piece of George Washington's original Mount Vernon estate has sold for $50 million, the highest residential sale ever in Virginia, Maryland or Washington, D.C. The historic property in ...

Lacking the kind of voluminous documentation that outlines the lives of George Washington and his family, modern historians studying the African American community at Mount Vernon must pore over ...