#Mount Vernon

Source: Fox News High school students on an archaeology field trip helped discover a 6,000-year-old stone ax head at George Washington’s Mount Vernon estate. The ax, according to experts, would have been an important part of the Native American toolkit in the fourth millennia, B.C. High school

Author: Lauren Young / Source: Atlas Obscura We know him as a war hero and the first president of the United States, but George Washington was also a practiced chartmaker and cartographer. He became an official land surveyor in Virginia at the age of 17, and was involved in creating many maps