by gwffoundation | Feb 6, 2017 | Building George's House, George Washington's Ferry Farm, Lives & Legacies
In this video, we see how stonemasons Ray Cannetti, Robert Hall, and Kevin Nieto laid the handmade Aquia sandstone foundation stones around and on top of the Washington house’s concrete cradle foundation, which protects original architectural remains...
by gwffoundation | Feb 1, 2017 | Archaeology, Lives & Legacies
For the past year or so my focus here at George Washington’s Ferry Farm has been determining what types of ceramics were owned by the Washington family. Once we have this information we want to acquire accurate examples to place in the reconstructed house for all to...
by gwffoundation | Jan 25, 2017 | Daily Life in the 1700s, Lives & Legacies
Recently I was contemplating Augustine and Mary Washington’s family bible. Like many families at the time, the Washingtons recorded the births of their children on their bible’s end pages. As I casually perused the handwritten notes that I had read so many times, I...
by gwffoundation | Jan 23, 2017 | George Washington's Ferry Farm, Historic Kenmore, Lives & Legacies
Scenes from an exciting and memorable year at Historic Kenmore and George Washington’s Ferry...
by gwffoundation | Jan 19, 2017 | George Washington's Ferry Farm, Historic Kenmore, Lives & Legacies
As 2017 begins, Lives & Legacies would like to hear from its readers! What would you like to know about George Washington’s boyhood, his mother Mary, his sister Betty, and his brothers? Maybe, you’re interested in the life of Fielding Lewis and the sacrifices he...
by gwffoundation | Jan 10, 2017 | Historic Kenmore, Holiday History, Lives & Legacies
Each January, Historic Kenmore presents Twelfth Night at Kenmore, a dramatic theater presentation that imagines the first Christmas that Fielding and Betty Washington Lewis spent in their newly built home. The play is set in January 1776 and that year is not a time...
