by gwffoundation | Nov 13, 2019 | Archaeology, George Washington's Ferry Farm, Lives & Legacies
A little more than a year ago we published a blog post highlighting a horse’s mane comb excavated years ago at George Washington’s Boyhood Home at Ferry Farm. Though the rusty iron mane comb was incomplete, a lone, decorative “G” located along the top of the comb...
by gwffoundation | Nov 6, 2019 | Historic Kenmore, History of Slavery, Kenmore Enslaved Community Project, Lives & Legacies
The staff of Historic Kenmore & George Washington’s Ferry Farm regularly conducts research into the enslaved communities that existed at both Kenmore and Ferry Farm during the Lewis and Washington family occupations. Most of the surviving information about...
by gwffoundation | Oct 31, 2019 | Archaeology, George Washington's Ferry Farm, Lives & Legacies
Ferry Farm’s tens of thousands of years of human habitation has provided archaeologists with nearly 800,000 artifacts to date, consisting of discarded items left by the people who lived on, worked, or visited this land. A question we often receive from visitors is...
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by gwffoundation | Oct 21, 2019 | Archaeology, George Washington's Ferry Farm, Lives & Legacies, Native American
Fredericksburg is famous for its colonial and Civil War history – but what about before that history? Decades of archaeological excavations at George Washington’s Ferry Farm have revealed millennia of human development and technology from pre-historic Native American...
by gwffoundation | Oct 17, 2019 | Archaeology, Lives & Legacies, Native American
Sometimes games are just fun but sometimes games can make you or break you. This is the case with chunkey, a Native American game. Invented around 600 AD by indigenous peoples of the Cahokia region (near modern day St. Louis, Missouri), chunkey was a popular game...
