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This Presidents' Day is also George Washington's 293rd birthday, and there was a big celebration held for him at Mount Vernon ...

The first floor of George Washington’s Mount Vernon will be open for the public to observe preservation work in progress on three days later this month, including Presidents Day, Feb. 17.

George Washington suffered severe teeth issues his entire life, and by the time he became president in 1789, he had just one ...

A bedding project for Mount Vernon is based on documents that tie George Washington to Betsy Ross. Betsy Ross interpreters, like Nina Gold, using period materials and technique, are sewing a ...

Lyndon Johnson worked on an uncle's ranch. Later he had his own LBJ Ranch in Texas. Dwight Eisenhower bought a farm in ...

The meaning of Presidents Day has changed dramatically, from being mostly unremarkable and filled with work for Washington in ...

George Washington was uneasy about the idea of publicly celebrating his life. And yet the nation is once again commemorating ...

They visited the Korean War Memorial and several museums. They also stopped by George Washington’s Mount Vernon estate. They are expected to return Wednesday evening.

In Alabama, Washington shares the spotlight with friend-turned-rival Thomas Jefferson, the nation’s third president and ...

The southbound lanes of Interstate 5 are blocked due to a fatal motorcycle crash in Mount Vernon. The Washington State Patrol says traffic is being diverted to George Hopper Road. Troopers are ...

Nearly 300 years since George Washington ... around the peach orchard at Mount Vernon, his home in Virginia. As Alexis Coe, a presidential historian and Washington biographer, put it, “He ...