What did George Washington squirrel away under the floorboards ... legend holds that he disobediently chopped down the cherry tree and admitted the deed. It’s unlikely Washington himself picked ...

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 ...

George Washington’s fondness for cherries is often woven into the fabric of American folklore, epitomized by the apocryphal tale of him chopping down a cherry tree and confessing to his father ...

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 ...