by gwffoundation | Jul 13, 2015 | George Washington's Ferry Farm, Lives & Legacies, Natural History
Scenes from the Demonstration Garden at George Washington’s Ferry Farm on a peaceful summer morning. The garden contains a variety of colonial-era plants that would have been grown by the Washington family like tobacco, corn, and squash. There are also modern...
by gwffoundation | Jul 8, 2015 | George Washington's Ferry Farm, Lives & Legacies
Scenes from this past weekend’s Independence Day celebration at George Washington’s Ferry...
by gwffoundation | Jul 1, 2015 | George Washington's Ferry Farm, Historic Kenmore, Lives & Legacies
A quick post today because everyone here at The George Washington Foundation are busily preparing for The Fourth of July at Ferry Farm this Saturday! Still, we did have a bit of time to take a quick look through the archives for some images of celebrations in...
by gwffoundation | Jun 29, 2015 | Building George's House, George Washington's Ferry Farm, Lives & Legacies
Master Stonemason Ray Cannetti dresses a stone that will be part of the foundation of an interpretive replica of George Washington’s boyhood home being constructed at Ferry Farm in Fredericksburg, Virginia. Watch Part 1: “Splitting the Stone” here....
by gwffoundation | Jun 24, 2015 | Archaeology, Lives & Legacies
Archaeologists are occasionally confronted with ‘mystery artifacts’ that either cannot be identified or have been altered to serve a purpose other than what was originally intended. Recently, in our small finds collection, we identified an artifact transformed in...
by gwffoundation | Jun 22, 2015 | Archaeology, George Washington's Ferry Farm, Lives & Legacies
In this video, spend a day with the archaeologists as they excavate at George Washington’s Ferry Farm. Learn more about Ferry Farm archaeology at...
