George Washington took the oath of office as America’s first president on the balcony of Federal Hall in New York City.

The Mount Vernon Marvel Hunt offers a fantastic opportunity to explore the historic downtown area of Mount Vernon, Ohio.

For a limited time, George Washington’s inaugural coat, which distanced his office from the military and from European ...

Jefferson County Historical Society will welcome Dennis Stroughmatt at 2 p.m. Jan. 25, in the Schweinfurth Museum in the ...

Rarely on display because it is so fragile, Mount Vernon is hosting a special public viewing of President George Washington’s historic inaugural coat.

Mount Vernon Congregational Church in Boston donated the three panels to the museum in 1975, the statement said. However, the museum said, one of the panels depicting the lilies never made the ...

An old Vernon County Censor newspaper article recently caught my eye: In June of 1868, 12 young students graduated from the “Wisconsin Institute for the Deaf and Dumb,” including Electa De ...

We have a copy of the book here in the archives at the Vernon County Museum and History Center. The book is useful because it includes the histories of each of Wisconsin’s regiments. The ...