George was only 11 years old when his father died. Upon his father’s death, the plantation and all its holdings were left to George’s older half-brothers, Lawrence and Augustine. Although George ...

That famous description of George Washington by his ... 1789 Despite not actively seeking the candidacy, Washington is unanimously elected as the first president of the United States under the ...

“As always—with everything Washington did—well thought ... wood harvested right here from George Washington’s Mount Vernon,” ...

We all know the familiar stories about George Washington. The cherry tree he chopped down. (Except he didn’t.) The lies he ...

One of the Founding Fathers of America, George ... at the time, Washington was a slave owner and owned a plantation. He is recorded to have recognised the moral failures of slavery, but he did not ...

On the afternoon of April 30, 1789, George Washington was sworn in as the first president of the United ... But the event looks much different than it did back then. Perhaps the most notable ...