U.S. PRESIDENTS (1732–1799); WESTMORELAND COUNTY, VA. George Washington served as the first president of the United States from age 57 in 1789 to age 65 in 1797, but before that, he was known ...

A 1921 mural of George Washington's 1776 crossing of the Delaware River by artist George Harding, missing for decades, was found damaged in a New Jersey basement.