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Our Best Guess about Mary Washington’s Best Bed

Our Best Guess about Mary Washington’s Best Bed

by gwffoundation | Oct 4, 2018 | Building George's House, Furniture, George Washington's Ferry Farm, Lives & Legacies

In July, we were very excited to see the culmination of at least a year’s worth of research and work when the “best bed” was installed in the Hall Back Room (the master bedchamber) of the Washington House. Between its imposing size (it nearly touches the ceiling) and...
Our Best Guess about Mary Washington’s Best Bed

The Furniture Makers: Harrison Higgins [Video]

by gwffoundation | Sep 24, 2018 | Building George's House, George Washington's Ferry Farm, Lives & Legacies, The Rooms at Ferry Farm

The replica Washington house is open at George Washington’s Ferry Farm but furnishing is still ongoing. We traveled to Richmond to visit furniture maker Harrison Higgins and he told us about the furniture that he and his crew have made for the Washington house....
Introducing Caty: More Than “Merry Laugh…and Lively Wit”

Introducing Caty: More Than “Merry Laugh…and Lively Wit”

by gwffoundation | Sep 20, 2018 | American Revolution, Lives & Legacies, Washington family

Editor’s Note: At George Washington’s Ferry Farm, we are always interested in reexaminations of accepted history.  Archaeology is creating new and more complete understandings of George’s Washington’s youth as well as of Mary Washington as a person.  Mary has been...
Archaeologists Dig History! [Photos]

Archaeologists Dig History! [Photos]

by gwffoundation | Sep 17, 2018 | Archaeology, George Washington's Ferry Farm, Lives & Legacies

This summer out on the dig site, one of our archaeology interns sometimes wore a t-shirt that read “archaeologist (n): one who digs history.” In this album, you’ll see this year’s excavation crew — field director Steve Lenik, assistant...
We Really Dig History!: This Summer’s Excavations at Ferry Farm

We Really Dig History!: This Summer’s Excavations at Ferry Farm

by gwffoundation | Aug 22, 2018 | Archaeology, George Washington's Ferry Farm, Lives & Legacies

Archaeological excavations at George Washington’s Ferry Farm have occurred nearly every summer since The George Washington Foundation purchased the property in 1996. The summer of 2017, when the majority of the replica Washington house construction was underway, was...
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