CNN, GEORGE WASHINGTON’S MOUNT VERNON By Amanda Sansone and Michael Yoshida George Washington is on the $1 bill; he’s got a monument named after him in our nation’s capital; a state in the Pacific ...

His 1781 terms of surrender to Gen. Charles Cornwallis ended the war’s last major land battle.

Mount Vernon’s newly renovated Education Center unveils an illuminating exhibition on the nation’s first leader.

President Martin Van Buren visited Ontario County. So did President Harry S Truman. In all 15 presidents, in office such as ...

Families invited to 'interact' with America's first president anywhere online and in person at History Fort Lauderdale. FORT ...

A lesser-known legacy of the first president is his Mount Vernon distillery, whose return has helped revive an interest in ...

President Herbert Hoover argued that “what we have need of today in this celebration is to renew in our people the inspiration that comes from George Washington as a founder of human liberty, as the ...