Researchers just uncovered two 18th-century cherry bottles in the cellar of George Washington's Mount Vernon home. The green ...

He increased the size of the house in the 1750s and again in the 1770s, thanks to the wealth of his wife, Martha Washington ...

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 ...

Enslaved women in the 18th and early 19th century were often forced to labor in the fields or in an urban setting like ...

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 ...

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 ...

Curators at George Washington’s Mount Vernon estate sought out rare 18th-century wallpaper for an ongoing restoration project. The wallpaper was found at the Old York Historical Society in Maine ...