where he hung it first in the “Lafayette bedchamber” and then in the first-floor entry hall, according to Mount Vernon curators. Washington died in 1799, and his widow, Martha, kept the key on ...

Excerpted from “A Son and his Adoptive Father: The Marquis de Lafayette and George Washington” 2006 exhibition at Mount Vernon. So passionate was the Marquis de Lafayette to join the fight for ...

A new exhibit at President George Washington's estate in Mount Vernon will open to the public on Juneteenth, and it explores ...

Approaching Mount Vernon, most people will have “never ... the key is a reminder of the friendship between Washington and Lafayette. George Washington met Lafayette when the marquis was just ...

Archaeologists at George Washington’s Mount Vernon have discovered dozens of glass jars filled with fruit preserves in the cellar of the historic Northern Virginia home that "likely haven't seen ...

Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro and French Ambassador to the U.S. Laurent Bili held a ship naming ceremony Monday morning at George Washington ... from Mount Vernon say the USS Lafayette honors ...

Contact her at cara.tabachnick@cbsinteractive.com Buried in the cellar of George Washington's Mount Vernon home, a treasure trove was waiting to be discovered – an enormous amount of preserved ...

The names of people who were enslaved on George’s Washington’s Mount Vernon estate are inscribed on the walls of what was their home: Tom Nokes. Vina. Barbara. Their names are grouped together by ...

Archaeologists found something incredibly rare in the cellar of George Washington's home at Mount Vernon: Two intact jars of cherries buried in the basement of the first U.S. president's house.

Who better to announce this addition than Marquis de Lafayette himself, General George Washington, Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro and a handful of others on the lawn of the Mount Vernon ...

Archaeologists at George Washington’s Mount Vernon have discovered dozens of glass jars filled with fruit preserves in the cellar of the historic Northern Virginia home that “likely haven’t ...