Mount Vernon, the Virginia home of George Washington on the banks of the Potomac River, was a refuge for Union and Confederate soldiers throughout the war. All were welcome to pay their respects ...

A piece of George Washington's original Mount Vernon estate has sold for ... which spans 16.5 acres on the Potomac River, was listed for sale for $60 million — the most expensive listing price ...

What says “historical tour” quite like The Mount Vernon Estate? George and Martha Washington’s expansive home and favorite ...

And, as it turns out, we know a bit more about the breakdown of his daily schedule when he resided at Mount Vernon, his estate on the banks of the Potomac River. Here's a breakdown of how a day in ...

A woman is recovering after her car plunged into the Potomac River and people nearby ... taking a bike ride Tuesday afternoon along the Mount Vernon trail in Northern Virginia.

The Potomac is not the river it was when George Washington looked upon it from Mount Vernon and made good money selling native shad. Goldfish, carp, channel catfish—none is native to the river.

When a woman in a Jeep plunged into the Potomac River on Tuesday evening ... He was on a run along the Mount Vernon Trail when the woman in a Jeep Cherokee veered off the George Washington ...

When companies wanted to build an oil tank farm across the Potomac in the 1950s, a woman named Frances Payne Bolton bought ...

Madison used all arguments at his disposal, including the Potomac site's proximity to George Washington's home at Mount Vernon. But the tide was against him in Congress, and by the spring of 1790 ...