The land had been settled by his great-grandfather in 1657. The original house where George Washington was born burned in 1779 and was never rebuilt. No one really knows what the house looked like.

Now a museum, this 18th-century plantation house (also known as Bush Hill House) was the base for George Washington and his sick half-brother Lawrence (who had tuberculosis) for two months in 1751.

The reader highlights the historical significance of the Hermitage in Ho-Ho-Kus, where George Washington and his troops ...

Feb. 22, 1732 George Washington is born in a modest house at Popes Creek, Westmoreland County, Virginia. His father, Augustine, is a plantation owner who dies when George is 11. June 15 ...

such as the Old State House, where the Declaration of Independence was read from the balcony in 1776; another stop is Faneuil Hall, where George Washington was entertained in 1789 and where today ...

On the afternoon of April 30, 1789, George Washington was sworn in as the first ... elect traveled from his temporary lodging at Franklin House — which would soon become the first presidential ...