by gwffoundation | Jul 13, 2023 | Archaeology, Developing America, George Washington's Ferry Farm, History of Slavery, Lives & Legacies, Native American
If you have followed the news of our excavations, you will have kept up to date with our building finds. The past two summers helped uncover evidence of one such structure, which we now believe represents a corncrib. While the name may seem self-explanatory, we have...
by gwffoundation | Feb 22, 2023 | Archaeology, Building George's House, George Washington's Ferry Farm, Lives & Legacies
At the beginning of our 2022 dig, we were working with the assumption that a colonial-era building was located at the edge of our excavation site at Ferry Farm, the Boyhood Home of George Washington. At the southeastern edge of the work yard, four post-holes had been...