Now a museum, this 18th-century plantation house (also known as Bush Hill House) was the base for George ... The Washington brothers traveled to the island hoping the tropical climate of Barbados ...

Cumulatively, presidents granted almost 35,000 individual acts of clemency, beginning with the first known pardon by President George Washington for the offence of smuggling rum from Barbados in ...

The official description for Esi Edugyan’s Man Booker Prize Finalist reads: “Eleven-year-old George Washington Black — or Wash — a field slave on a Barbados sugar plantation, is initially ...

Fact Check Team is monitoring the inauguration ceremony, other addresses from Trump and former Present Joe Biden and reactions from around the country to sort fact f ...

The 18th-century painting by Charles Willson Peale had previously been the subject of mismanaged restoration attempts. Now, experts in Versailles are bringing it back in line with the artist's origina ...

Easternmost in the Caribbean Sea, Barbados is an island-nation of dualities ... converted the so-called chattel house — small, wooden, movable houses that were built by the first freed, Black ...

A plaque commemorating a 2,000-acre land acquisition by George Washington in 1784 in the area southeast of -- and bordered by ...

Two Rivers Historical Society received a grant to fund the event. Rummage sale items are donated by community members.

The best time to visit Barbados is between July and November. Though these months fall within the Caribbean's hurricane season, hurricanes rarely hit the island, and you could attend one of the ...

On the afternoon of April 30, 1789, George Washington was sworn in as the first ... elect traveled from his temporary lodging at Franklin House — which would soon become the first presidential ...

"George Washington was staying at his home in New York City called the Franklin House and he was taken down to Federal Hall in the mid-afternoon," Ventura said. Ventura said the parts of his ...

For a limited time, George Washington’s inaugural coat, which distanced his office from the military and from European royalty, will be on display at Mount Vernon. By Alexander Nazaryan Fashion ...