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

Vernon, studies the domestic life, foodways, and religious practices of the residents of George Washington's plantation, with a special interest in the slave community. Excerpted with permission ...

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A statue of President George Washington is on display on the fourth floor of the Boston Athenaeum. Washington owned the sprawling Mount Vernon plantation, and at the time of his death, 317 enslaved ...

(AP) - Like the other Founding Fathers, George Washington was uneasy about the idea of publicly ... Washington was born Feb. 22, 1732, on Popes Creek Plantation near the Potomac River in Virginia.

George Washington was the son of Augustine Washington (1694-1743) and his second wife, Mary Ball Washington (1708-1789). The Washington family moved to Ferry Farm Plantation in 1738. Located on the ...

Feb. 22, 1732 George Washington is born in a modest house at Popes Creek, Westmoreland County, Virginia. His father, Augustine, is a plantation owner who dies when George is 11. June 15 ...

LAREDO, Texas — George Washington started his annual procession ... club and sprawling gated subdivisions with names like Plantation and Alexander Estates. The festivities began in 1898 and ...

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 ...