by gwffoundation | Nov 27, 2019 | George Washington's Ferry Farm, Lives & Legacies, Natural History
The holiday season is beginning! No matter how you celebrate the next several weeks, you’re likely spending extra time thinking about food. We archaeologists are no different, only we also want to know what the Washingtons and their enslaved laborers ate, whether at...
by gwffoundation | Nov 13, 2019 | Archaeology, George Washington's Ferry Farm, Lives & Legacies
A little more than a year ago we published a blog post highlighting a horse’s mane comb excavated years ago at George Washington’s Boyhood Home at Ferry Farm. Though the rusty iron mane comb was incomplete, a lone, decorative “G” located along the top of the comb...
by gwffoundation | Jul 11, 2018 | Archaeology, George Washington's Ferry Farm, Lives & Legacies
Before there were planes, trains, and automobiles, and other engine-driven devices, people of the 18th, 19th and early-20th centuries used horses, mules, and other four-legged draft animals to transport themselves, pull their wagons and carriages, and help manage the...
