Mount Vernon was on the very edge of that North-South line, just in slave-owning Virginia but a few miles ... but Washington switched his main crop to wheat in 1766, when tobacco was no longer ...

MOUNT VERNON, Va. (AP) — Chopping cherry trees is not ... Ultimately, Washington turned to wheat, but continued to grow hemp for use on the estate. As workers used a scythe to cut and harvest ...

Archaeologists at George Washington’s Mount Vernon estate found a hoard of 18th-century bottles buried in an old cellar ...

At 9:30 a.m., re-enactors of the First Virginia Regiment of the ... July is a time of celebration at Mount Vernon, marking the beginning of the wheat harvest season. Field hands kick-off the ...