He increased the size of the house in the 1750s and again in the 1770s, thanks to the wealth of his wife, Martha Washington ...
Enslaved women in the 18th and early 19th century were often forced to labor in the fields or in an urban setting like ...
Mount Vernon, the Virginia home of George Washington ... When he died on December 14, 1799, at 67, President John Adams approached Martha Washington about burying her husband at the site that ...
of the Federal City (later Washington, D.C.), the mother- in-law of a former Mount Vernon slave. Among the objects that her mistress, Eliza Custis Law (Martha Washington's eldest granddaughter ...
On George Washington’s 293rd birthday, the Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association (MVLA) honored Mount Vernon, Ohio, resident Karen ...
John Parke Curtis and Martha Parke Curtis, George Washington also helped raise her grandchildren, nieces, and nephews in their home at Mount Vernon. None of America’s political parties can claim ...