by gwffoundation | Aug 8, 2016 | Building George's House, George Washington's Ferry Farm, Lives & Legacies
In this video, we learn how Stonemasons Ray Cannetti, Kevin Neito, and Robert Hall split and dressed Aquia sandstone into foundation stones for the Washington House interpretive replica at Ferry Farm. Learn about the special concrete cradle the foundation stones will...
by gwffoundation | Aug 3, 2016 | Archaeology, Lives & Legacies
We excavate hundreds of artifacts every day during the field season at George Washington’s Ferry Farm and occasionally one or two really stand out. For me, the most interesting artifacts uncovered during the past few years are fragments of a Bartmann Jug. The...
by gwffoundation | Jul 28, 2016 | Lives & Legacies, Theater and Theater History
When we look at the history of Shakespeare in America the preference for his classic tragedies is obvious. Romeo and Juliet and Richard III are two of the three most-performed plays of the 18th century (George Farquhar’s The Beaux Stratagem rounded out this top...
by gwffoundation | Jul 25, 2016 | Building George's House, George Washington's Ferry Farm, Lives & Legacies
An interpretive replica of the house that young George Washington lived in with his family is being built at his boyhood home at Ferry Farm near Fredericksburg, Virginia. This replica is being constructed on the exact location of the original. Through the use of a...
by gwffoundation | Jul 20, 2016 | Lives & Legacies, Natural History
Plants have played a critical role in human survival through the ages. Although most people in the modern world do not rely on plants they gather themselves, we are surrounded by useful flora that Native Americans and later European colonists relied upon. Today,...
