MOUNT VERNON – While firefighters fought Wednesday’s fast-spreading fire on South First Avenue — pulling a man from the flames and sending him to the hospital where he was declared dead ...

Nicolas Cage kidnaps the president and drags him into a secret basement beneath Mount Vernon in “National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets.” I rolled my eyes and suspended belief – surely this is ...

MOUNT VERNON – Five firefighters were injured Friday when a basement fire spread through parts of a South Fourth Avenue furniture store. The firefighters, who were said to have suffered from ...

MT. VERNON, N.Y. (PIX11) – The Mt. Vernon Fire Department said a teenager managed to escape a fire that killed his parents, older brother and sister at their home in Westchester County Tuesday.

Archaeologist Nick Beard was gently pushing aside the hardened dirt in the basement of George Washington’s home at Mount Vernon, Va., last fall when he spotted the mouth of a glass bottle.

Archaeologists found something incredibly rare in the cellar of George Washington's home at Mount Vernon: Two intact jars of cherries buried in the basement of the first U.S. president's house ...

Mount Vernon is about 20 miles south of Washington. ... A basement hearth was stained with soot from the 1700s. “I’ve worked on a lot of different places,” said McAuley, ...

Mount Vernon is currently undergoing extensive renovations to take the Virginia mansion back to its 18th-century roots. Skip to main content. ... When working in the basement, ...

To top it off, Mount Vernon has some of the highest property taxes in the country, with the average homeowner paying more than $17,000 a year. Yet residents receive little relief from the city for ...