by gwffoundation | Feb 20, 2017 | George Washington's Ferry Farm, Lives & Legacies
Every February, Presidents’ Day weekend is a celebratory one at George Washington’s Ferry Farm! As always this year, George’s boyhood home marked his birthday on Saturday, February 18 and then held Archaeology Day on Monday, February 20. Here are...
by gwffoundation | Feb 17, 2017 | Building George's House, George Washington's Ferry Farm, Lives & Legacies
Over the past several weeks, following the timber framing and while the shingling of the roof was taking place, The George Washington Foundation’s carpenters Steve Chronister, Tom Rainey, and Josh Schwenk installed the Washington house windows and the beaded...
by gwffoundation | Feb 15, 2017 | Lives & Legacies
Parents, perhaps hoping to spur their offspring to similar greatness, have named their children George Washington ever since the most famous George Washington rose to prominence as commander of the Continental Army and the nation’s first president. Few other George...
by gwffoundation | Feb 13, 2017 | Building George's House, George Washington's Ferry Farm, Lives & Legacies
The timber framing of the Washington house is complete. In this video, we get a close-up view of the construction of the house’s timber frame. For a timelapse view of the timber framing, watch this video. To see how the beams in the frame were fashioned, watch...
by gwffoundation | Feb 10, 2017 | Building George's House, George Washington's Ferry Farm, Lives & Legacies
This past autumn, workers from Peter Post Restorations lead by Peter himself added the shingles to the roof of the Washington house at Ferry Farm. The handmade riven shingles were sawn from a tree trunk, smoothed on one side, and decoratively scalloped. Because they...
by gwffoundation | Feb 8, 2017 | Archaeology, Foodways, George Washington's Ferry Farm, Lives & Legacies
Fads come and go. Such is life. Eighteenth century colonists were not immune to flash-in-the-pan trends. However, given that information traveled a bit slower before the digital age, in the 18th century a ‘quick trend’ may have lasted 10 or 20 years, instead of 10...
