Students at the Mount Vernon STEAM Academy are learning how try court cases as they prepare to compete in a New York statewide mock trial tournament.

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

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

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

Free is good. Guess what American city has more than 100 free world-class activities, including museums – more than any other ...

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

The year marks significant anniversaries for two of Vernon's heritage organizations. The Museum & Archives of Vernon celebrates 75 years of preserving local history, while the Okanagan Historical ...

which involves creating a new space for the Vernon Public Art Gallery and Greater Vernon Museum and Archives. The results were 7,850 in favour and 5,357 against. People who live in the City of ...

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 ...

They say 22-year-old David Smith, of Mount Vernon, was killed at the Heritage Homes townhouse complex on Brook Street shortly before 11 a.m. The incident started as some kind of dispute between ...