by gwffoundation | Apr 11, 2018 | Archaeology, Furniture, George Washington's Ferry Farm, Lives & Legacies
Let’s do our tacks! I know you’ve been dreading doing your tacks, and putting it off as long as you could, but time is running out. It is time to do our tacks, friends. Whether iron alloy or copper alloy, tacks provide important clues to the presence of upholstered...
by gwffoundation | Apr 4, 2018 | George Washington's Ferry Farm, Lives & Legacies, Natural History
Recently, on a gray overcast March morning, four members of the Fredericksburg Birding Club bundled up against the unseasonable cold to trudge across the open fields and through the forests of George Washington’s Ferry Farm to conduct their latest bird survey. It was...
by gwffoundation | Mar 30, 2018 | Archaeology, George Washington's Ferry Farm, Lives & Legacies
Mara Kaktins, archaeology lab supervisor at George Washington’s Ferry Farm, explains the weird patination on some glass artifacts excavated by our archaeologists. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90ZIUGL_kC4?ecver=1 For other “Inside the Archaeology...
by gwffoundation | Mar 28, 2018 | Archaeology, Lives & Legacies
With building work on the reconstructed Washington family home at George Washington’s Ferry Farm nearly finished, our archaeologists are in the midst of identifying Washington-owned plates, bowls, glasses, and other household artifacts to be used to furnish the...
by gwffoundation | Mar 22, 2018 | George Washington's Ferry Farm, Historic Kenmore, Lives & Legacies
Historic Kenmore and George Washington’s Ferry Farm experienced a snowstorm on Wednesday, March 21, 2018. Our staff took these photos of the snowfall from around the Lewis and Washington homes. We also setup a timelapse camera at the Ferry Farm Visitors Center...
by gwffoundation | Mar 16, 2018 | Daily Life in the 1700s, Lives & Legacies
We look at our cats today as the furriest, purriest companions known to humankind. But most cats in colonial America worked for their status as the designated house cat. It wasn’t all lazy days trying to squeeze into the smallest box possible or snoozing in that tiny...
