A nearly $20 million Dallas estate overlooking White Rock Lake and modeled after President George Washington’s Mount Vernon ...

If you've ever been to the Dallas Arboretum or to White Rock Lake, you have probably seen Mount Vernon in the distance ...

Archaeologists at George Washington’s Mount Vernon estate found a hoard of 18th-century bottles buried in an old cellar holding their original contents from 250 years before.

Archaeologists have found dozens of glass bottles containing fruit preserves that are well over 200 years old in the cellar of George Washington's 18th-century Mount Vernon mansion.

Washington, who led American forces during the Revolutionary War and became the nation’s first president in 1789, was often away from Mount Vernon but loved the site and died there on Dec. 14, 1799.

The “Vernon” of Mount Vernon is British Admiral Edward Vernon. He was the commanding officer of George’s older half-brother Lawrence Washington, who fought in a conflict between England and ...

At the time, an enslaved woman named Doll, who was brought to Mount Vernon by Martha Washington in 1759, was the family’s main cook, Dr. Boroughs said.

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 ...

The story of a six-year-old George Washington chopping down a cherry tree may be a myth, but archeologists excavating Mount Vernon, the home of the United States’ first president, made the very ...