Archaeologists have found dozens of glass bottles containing fruit preserves that are well over 200 years old in the cellar of George Washington's Mount Vernon mansion. The 29 intact bottles ...

A renovation project at George Washington’s Mount Vernon mansion uncovered two sealed glass bottles full of cherries. The cherries, complete with stems and pits, still had their signature scent.

Slaves on the four outlying farms of the Mount Vernon estate may have had even more freedom in their private lives than those residing at the Mansion House (Mount Vernon), where personal servants ...

A groundbreaking investigation has identified two new suspects in a 1996 double homicide in Westchester, clearing a man ...