The slaves of George Washington must have found the ... resided in the area well into the nineteenth century, and he as well as others may have kept alive African customs, names, and words.

Although George Washington attended grammar school, he is one of eight presidents that did not attend college. At 17 years old, George Washington served as county surveyor of Culpepper County.

That famous description of George Washington ... the father of a country. Washington’s earliest ambitions, though, aimed more at the prosaic than the glorious. He probably imagined nothing ...