George Washington and Mount Vernon : a historical ... in 1761 and spent much of his life expanding and improving the estate. Mount Vernon served as more than just a residence; it was a working ...

1. -- Within a few hundred feet of the tomb of George Washington the skeleton of a man was discovered by Gatekeeper Vickers to-day in a dense growth of underbrush on the Mount Vernon estate.

Whatever the answer, the artifacts certainly suggest the practice of other belief systems beside, or perhaps in conjunction with, Christianity on George Washington's estate. They also lend ...

Archaeologists have found dozens of glass bottles containing fruit preserves that are well over 200 years old in the cellar of George ... Washington in 1759 and charged with oversight of the ...