I am related to a man who once knew a man who knew another man who knew George Washington. And to prove it, my family has a souvenir of the great relationship between the first President and that ...

Like many presidents, George Washington had his favorite dessert, which took over five hours to make and the recipe was ...

Lacking the kind of voluminous documentation that outlines the lives of George Washington and his family, modern historians studying the African American community at Mount Vernon must pore over ...

Source: Mount Vernon He would return home around 7 a.m. to eat breakfast with his family and any guests who had stopped by the estate. Source: Mount Vernon, "George Washington: First in War ...

George Washington died at age 67 in the big family bed on the second floor of Mount Vernon, on December 14, 1799. He was exhausted; a sudden inflammation of the throat stopped his breathing.

George Washington, who led America through ... the Virginia estate he had inherited from his family. Washington's farms were models of self-sufficiency, raising and producing everything from ...

Washington won the presidency by unanimous electoral vote in both 1788 and in 1792. Challenges Upon his inauguration as the first president on April 30, 1789, George Washington assumed office under ...