George Washington's Black Eye IF YOU LIVE IN NEW HAMPSHIRE, YOU PROBABLY KNOW ABOUT THE VISIT OF GEORGE WASHINGTON TO PORTSMOUTH IN THE FALL OF 1789. ACTUALLY, THE PRESIDENT ARRIVED ON HALLOWEEN ...

Though the evidence unambiguously confirms that Washington, who died in 1799, did sport false teeth, and that they were made out of decidedly low-tech (to our modern eye) materials, historians ...