While historians agree that the story is a myth ... The 250-year-old cherry trees at Mount Vernon are living testaments to the enduring legacy of George Washington. They remind us of his ...

MOUNT VERNON, Va. — George Washington never did cut down the cherry tree, despite the famous story to the contrary, but he did pack away quite a few bottles of the fruit at his Mount Vernon home.

Archeologists at George ... would be the cherry on top for Washington of all people, given one of the most enduring myths about him centers on chopping down that very type of tree.

There’s a popular myth that George Washington damaged a cherry tree in his youth, then confessed to his father by saying: “I cannot tell a lie.” There’s no hard evidence that this actually ...

The story of a six-year-old George Washington chopping down a cherry tree may be a myth, but archeologists excavating Mount Vernon, the home of the United States’ first president, made the very ...