He elevated Mount Vernon to marquee status in the basketball world and was perhaps the greatest player to hail from those four-square miles that have produced so many college and NBA talents.

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But Washington's birthday had been celebrated way before it was an official holiday, according to Mount Vernon: "By 1932, the bicentennial year of Washington's birth, the American map contained a ...

Fourteen students, headed by archaeology teacher Jason Anderson, were helping to map out the dimensions of what is believed to be a cemetery for Mount Vernon’s enslaved African Americans and ...