by gwffoundation | Mar 7, 2025 | Collections Management, Daily Life in the 1700s, Ferry Farm, Founding Figures, French and Indian War, Lives & Legacies, Washington in the World
Some of the most delicate objects in our collection are our archives. Paper and other document materials like vellum and parchment are very sensitive materials that can be irreversibly damaged simply by light. This makes it very difficult to display or put on...
by gwffoundation | Feb 19, 2025 | 20th century, George Washington's Ferry Farm, Historic Kenmore, Historic Preservation, Lives & Legacies
As you drive down the road, sometimes, there are enough signs to make your head spin. It can be tempting to just drive by these stark white cast iron road markers with black text when you see them. Even so, sometimes you can’t help but let a word or a...
by gwffoundation | Feb 5, 2025 | 20th century, Historic Kenmore, Kenmore Assoication, Lives & Legacies
As the United States and historic sites across the country, including the George Washington Foundation, prepare to commemorate the nation’s 250th anniversary next year, it might be easy for the eightieth anniversary of the end of World War II to become an...
by gwffoundation | Jan 23, 2025 | 18th Century Crafts, British Empire, Lives & Legacies
We have a lot of silver in our collections, ranging from candlesticks to teapots to spoons. With all the silver, I have become familiar with eighteenth-century silversmith marks, but I have never explored the artisans behind the marks. I was pleasantly...
by gwffoundation | Jan 8, 2025 | American Revolution, Developing America, Founding Figures, Lives & Legacies, Religion
Figure 1: Washington’s words to the Newport congregation (George Washington Institute for Religious Freedom) The quote, “To Bigotry, No Sanction, To Persecution No Assistance” appears in a 1790 letter written by George Washington to the Hebrew Congregation in Newport,...
by gwffoundation | Dec 13, 2024 | Betty Washington, Daily Life in the 1700s, Developing America, Historic Kenmore, Kenmore Assoication, Lives & Legacies, Washington family
There once stood a large horse chestnut tree on the corner of Fauquier and Charles Street in Fredericksburg. It was noted as one of the thirteen legendary Washington horse chestnut trees planted by George himself. By the 1930s, it was becoming clear that the tree...
