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 ...

That famous description of George Washington by his friend and fellow ... Together, they were home to a million and a half people, the population doubling roughly every 20 years.

"George Washington was staying at his home in New York City called the Franklin House and he was taken down to Federal Hall in the mid-afternoon," Ventura said. Ventura said the parts of his ...