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

George Washington’s Mount Vernon has unveiled a new permanent exhibit, “Lives Bound Together: Slavery at Mount Vernon.” ...

Around the couple’s one-year anniversary, Washington wrote George Augustine a letter revealing his intent, upon his death, to give them 2,000-3,000 acres of his River Farm property.

George Washington had title to thousands of acres in at least three states. Where he lived was at Mount Vernon in Virginia. He had been a surveyor, a statesman, a military man, a farmer and, of ...

It explores the lives of the 317 enslaved people who resided and worked at George Washington’s Five Farms, gristmill, and distillery. “The important stories of the enslaved men, ...

From September 18th to the 26th, 1777, General George Washington and the Continental Army inhabited farms and other buildings in the area that is now known as New Hanover Township.