Visiting Mount Vernon could be seen as a right of ... It sat dilapidated on the Potomac River until one fateful day in 1853, when Cunningham’s mother, Louisa Bird Cunningham, sailed by the ...

Fast forward to January 13, 1982 and 78 people lost their lives in another crash into the Potomac River. This time it was Air Florida flight 90, a Boeing 737 that took off on an icy day and hit the ...

Plans for two new bridges over the Potomac River have moved “to the next ... will also create a direct connection between the Mount Vernon Trail and the Jefferson Memorial and East Potomac ...

Madison used all arguments at his disposal, including the Potomac site's proximity to George Washington's home at Mount Vernon. But the tide was against him in Congress, and by the spring of 1790 ...