British used bioweapon in US war of independence
(Image: Everett Collection/Rex Features) A document has just gone on display at Mount Vernon, Virginia - the museum in the former home of George Washington, first US President. It is an order dated...
View ArticleBook containing George Washington's copy of Constitution fetches nearly...
A book owned by George Washington and containing his own annotated copy of the Constitution sold for almost $10 million at Christie's, more than three times what it was expected to draw. A fierce...
View ArticleGeorge Washington’s Rye Whiskey Going on Sale (@ Mount Vernon Estate...
George Washington’s rye whiskey going on sale Rye whiskey using George Washington’s own recipe will soon go on sale at the first president’s Mount Vernon estate in Virginia. The presidential home...
View ArticleI-5 bridge collapses over Skagit River, sending vehicles, people into water
MOUNT VERNON, Wash. — A portion of an Interstate 5 bridge over the Skagit River, about 60 miles north of Seattle, collapsed Thursday, sending three vehicles and people plunging into the cold water at...
View ArticleGeorge Washington Finally Gets His Presidential Library
Since Franklin Roosevelt, every modern U.S. president has opened his own presidential library. On Friday, President George Washington, the nation’s first, finally will get his turn, as a...
View ArticleBarricades At Mount Vernon REMOVED
Mount Vernon is open. Our parking lots are now open. The barricade was placed in front of Mount Vernon’s parking lots for a short period (less than 3 hours). Once the National Park Service realized...
View ArticlePRUDEN: The cheap tricks of the game(Park Rangers ADMISSION about harassment)
The Park Service appears to be closing streets on mere whim and caprice. The rangers even closed the parking lot at Mount Vernon, where the plantation home of George Washington is a favorite tourist...
View ArticleReflections on the Mt. Vernon Assembly
Yesterday, approximately 100 state legislators from over 30 states met at George Washington's home in Mount Vernon, VA. The meeting's purpose was to begin drafting the procedural rules for a Convention...
View ArticleGAINING STEAM? NEARLY 100 LAWMAKERS DESCEND ON MOUNT VERNON TO TALK...
Close to 100 legislators from 32 states met in Mount Vernon, Va., Saturday to discuss the possibility of adding amendments to the U.S. Constitution through a convention of the states. Such a...
View ArticleState Lawmakers Assemble at Mount Vernon to Discuss a Constitutional Convention
At a time when the federal government appears truly broken, state lawmakers have assembled to reclaim the power vested in the states by calling for a convention of the states as a means of creating...
View ArticleSen. Greg Ball says he wants more accountability from Mt. Vernon...
... in wake of Mahopac basketball incident A state senator says he wants more accountability from Mount Vernon after a fight erupted at a high school basketball game between Mount Vernon and Mahopac....
View ArticleArticle V Constitution: Mount Vernon Assembly [Live Web Stream Now! Today...
The Mount Vernon Assembly – Indianapolis FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Skip Brown skip.brown@iga.in.gov 317-232-9521 The Mount Vernon Assembly to Meet at Indiana Statehouse June 12 and 13 INDIANAPOLIS...
View ArticleDelegates Begin Planning for Changes to U.S. Constitution [Mt. Vernon...
INDIANAPOLIS | Representatives and senators from 29 states met Thursday in the Indiana Statehouse to begin planning for the first state-led revisions to the U.S. Constitution since the nation's...
View ArticleArchaeologists Find George Washington's Boyhood Home
The cellars held a large number of artifacts including pieces of the house's ceilings and painted walls, fragments of 18th century pottery and other ceramics, glass shards, wig curlers and toothbrush...
View ArticleWashington’s Boyhood Home Is Found
Researchers announced Wednesday that remains excavated in the last three years were those of the long-sought dwelling, on the old family farm in Virginia 50 miles south of Washington. The house stood...
View ArticleCelebrate George Washington's 280th Birthday at His Home, Mount Vernon!
MOUNT VERNON, Va., Feb. 13, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- George Washington's home, Mount Vernon, celebrates our first president's birthday with three days of special events including an outdoor...
View ArticleHistory revealed: What people of Baltimore left in time capsules
Early pictures of the U.S. Declaration of Independence and many artifacts commemorating the centennial of the "Star-Spangled Banner," Baltimore's Washington Monument and other key aspects of American...
View ArticleSorority revokes membership of...
College is the place to learn, grow and become an independent thinker – unless you are a member of the sorority Delta Phi Delta at Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa. In that case, college is the...
View ArticlePresident George Washington, Patriot to the End
Reflections on the anniversary of the death of General Washington... On December 12, 1799, General George Washington, at 67 years of age, was still a busy and healthy man. Despite the snow and ice that...
View ArticlePresident Trump and First Lady to host France's Emmanuel Macron and His...
President Donald Trump will reportedly host a private dinner for French President Emmanuel Macron at Mount Vernon, the colonial home of George Washington. The rare honor was reported Sunday by the...
View ArticleFrench President Macaroni Arrives on His Little Jet (Macaroni? ROFL)
RUSH: Oh, look, the French president has arrived on his little jet. Do you know that — this is great. (interruption) What’s so funny? Well, it is. It looks like an Airbus A310 or A320 or something....
View ArticleBUSTED: Mount Vernon Debunks Politico's Fake News Story About...
How many times will the liberal media have to endure getting hit in the face with their shoddy reporting about the Trump White House? Seriously, how many stories have been utterly gutted for being...
View ArticleA choir decided to go ahead with rehearsal. Now dozens of members have...
MOUNT VERNON, Wash. — With the coronavirus quickly spreading in Washington state in early March, leaders of the Skagit Valley Chorale debated whether to go ahead with weekly rehearsal. The virus was...
View Article‘We will lose the story of the United States’ by not honoring...
In response to protesters tearing down a 100-year-old statue of George Washington and vandalizing it, Washington's Mount Vernon warned that “we will lose the story of the United States” by failing to...
View ArticleIn 1837, George Washington's Remains Were Disinterred. Here's What...
Almost four decades after the death of George Washington, a beautiful new marble sarcophagus was donated to replace the deteriorating original. On Oct. 7, 1837, family and friends gathered at the vault...
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