The former California governor is the latest to recognize that the most remarkable thing about the first president was not ...

George Washington’s crossing of the Delaware River: A holiday tradition for fans of history . The reenactment is held every December in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.

On Sept. 18, 1793, Washington crossed the Potomac River and was met by two brass bands, a volunteer artillery company and a delegation of Masons from Virginia and Maryland.

Potomac Yard is a neighborhood in Northern Virginia that straddles southeastern Arlington County and northeastern Alexandria, Virginia, located principally in the area between U.S. Route 1 and the ...

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

Gen. George Washington may have crossed the Delaware River once on Christmas night 1776, but reenactors this year will twice offer the public the opportunity to see recreation of the military achie… ...

This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does ...

E ver since George Washington crossed the Delaware during the American Revolution and became the first president of the United States, he's been a permanent fixture in American lore and history ...

A woman who veered into the Potomac River while driving northbound on the George Washington Memorial Parkway was rescued by the U.S. Park Police and good Samaritans.

The Custis children’s names were absent for good reason: They were not blood-related to George Washington at all. They would appear on a separate family tree only for the Custis family, into ...

George Washington served as the first president of the United States from age 57 in 1789 to age 65 in 1797, but before that, he was known for his military leadership during the French and Indian ...

Retracing George Washington ... “Washington was convinced after this trip that a suitable portage could be effected from the Potomac ... The years 1753, 1754 and 1755 saw Washington cross ...