Nearly 300 years since George Washington’s birth, the holiday has morphed into ... fence around the peach orchard at Mount Vernon, his home in Virginia. As Alexis Coe, a presidential historian ...
George Washington was the son of Augustine Washington (1694-1743) and his second wife, Mary Ball Washington (1708-1789). The Washington family moved to Ferry Farm Plantation in 1738. Located on the ...
Washington won the presidency by unanimous electoral vote in both 1788 and in 1792. Challenges Upon his inauguration as the first president on April 30, 1789, George Washington assumed office under ...