George Washington’s fondness for cherries is often woven into the fabric of American folklore, epitomized by the apocryphal tale of him chopping down a cherry tree and confessing to his father ...

What did George Washington squirrel away under the floorboards ... legend holds that he disobediently chopped down the cherry tree and admitted the deed. It’s unlikely Washington himself picked ...

MOUNT VERNON, Va. (AP) — George Washington never did cut down the cherry tree, despite the famous story to the contrary, but he did pack away quite a few bottles of the fruit at his Mount Vernon ...

a nod to the infamous cherry tree apocryphal where a young George Washington supposedly said, “I cannot tell a lie” after chopping down a cherry tree. Just in case you forget where you are ...

MOUNT VERNON, Va. — George Washington never did cut down the cherry tree, despite the famous story to the contrary, but he did pack away quite a few bottles of the fruit at his Mount Vernon home.

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 ...