Located on the Rappahanock River, Washington would spend most of his childhood there. George was only 11 years old when his father died. Upon his father’s death, the plantation and all its holdings ...

4 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1789, George Washington of Virginia ... She said she had been forced to join her captors and was charged with participating in bank robberies.

That famous description of George Washington ... planter. Washington had been renting a family farm in Northern Virginia from the widow of his older half-brother Lawrence, who died in 1752.

Washington won the presidency by unanimous electoral vote in both 1788 and in 1792. Challenges Upon his inauguration as the first president on April 30, 1789, George Washington assumed office under ...

On the afternoon of April 30, 1789, George Washington was sworn in as the first president of the United States. Since Washington took his oath of office, Inauguration Day has continued to be an ...