This article was written by Boyertown Middle School East Eighth-Grade Students Aislyn McAghon, Gabi Carr, and Elena Childs.

It was here, in northeastern England, that the ancestors of America’s first president, George Washington, inherited the family name before emigrating to Virginia in 1656. It’s thousands of ...

Feb. 22, 1732 George Washington is born in a modest house at ... disorganized gaggle of New England militiamen, most hardscrabble farmers and small-time merchants, holding the British army at ...

Curators at George Washington’s Mount Vernon estate sought ... it was previously known Washington purchased wallpaper from England in the late 1750s, newly discovered documents reveal the ...