Perched atop a hill overlooking the Potomac River, Mount Vernon was both the childhood home of our first president and the place where he died, in 1799.

With over 6,700 square feet and panoramic Potomac views, this Colonial earns its place on Old Mansion Road. Photography It’s near the Potomac River and George Washington’s Mount Vernon ...

A week after Mount Vernon launched a campaign against Dominion Energy's plans to build a natural gas compressor station across the Potomac River from the Virginia estate, the company says it is ...

The Potomac River was once a bountiful asset and source of employment. In 1604, Captain John Smith wrote of fish so plentiful he could spear them with his sword, oysters that “lay as thick as ...

Torrential rains and a small mudslide last week caused over $1 million in damage at George Washington's Mount Vernon ... East Lawn that sits between the mansion and the Potomac River.

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.

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

So will his silver oil lamps, his French marble and bronze mantel clock, and most of the other contents of his elegant 290-year-old Mount Vernon home on the Potomac River.