The former California governor is the latest to recognize that the most remarkable thing about the first president was not ...

Most people associate George Washington with cherry trees. Supposedly, a young George Washington confessed to his dad that he ...

Excerpted from “A Son and his Adoptive Father: The Marquis de Lafayette and George Washington” 2006 exhibition at Mount Vernon.

George Washington’s 1789 inauguration suit coat is now on display at Mount Vernon. Our first President was intentional with his details: the domestically produced wool suit was meant to promote ...

Researchers just uncovered two 18th-century cherry bottles in the cellar of George Washington's Mount Vernon home. The green bottles contained a liquid researchers believe may be groundwater, as ...

A major restoration project is underway at George Washington’s Mount Vernon in Fairfax County, Virginia, in preparation for ...

Curators at George Washington’s Mount Vernon estate sought out rare 18th-century wallpaper for an ongoing restoration project.

Two hundred years to the day, Major General Marquis de Lafayette was again honored by admirers when Mount Vernon Estate held a re-enactment of his Oct. 17, 1824, return to George Washington’s ...

A new exhibit tells the stories of those enslaved by George Washington on his Mount Vernon estate. It opens on Juneteenth.

George Washington’s 1789 inauguration suit coat is now on display at Mount Vernon. Our first President was intentional with his details: the domestically produced wool suit was meant to promote ...