by gwffoundation | Jan 23, 2025 | 18th Century Crafts, British Empire, Lives & Legacies
We have a lot of silver in our collections, ranging from candlesticks to teapots to spoons. With all the silver, I have become familiar with eighteenth-century silversmith marks, but I have never explored the artisans behind the marks. I was pleasantly...
by gwffoundation | Apr 3, 2024 | 18th Century Crafts, Archaeology, British Empire, Daily Life in the 1700s, George Washington's Ferry Farm, Lives & Legacies
A quick refresher from part one of the TD marked pipe saga – Clay tobacco pipes with the mark TD are a ubiquitous item at historical archaeology sites dating from the mid-18th through the 20th century. While at one point the mark represented a specific maker, it...
![Little George’s Grand Tour of Europe [Photos]](https://kenmore.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/01.jpg)
by gwffoundation | May 1, 2020 | George Washington, Lives & Legacies, Washington in the World
A staff member who works at George Washington’s Ferry Farm and Historic Kenmore vacationed in England, Austria, and Hungary last September and October. Little George accompanied her and enjoyed seeing new sites and delving into the history of Europe. As the real...
![Little George Goes to London [Photos]](https://kenmore.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/gw-on-blackheath-1024x675.jpg)
by gwffoundation | Oct 4, 2019 | Lives & Legacies, Washington in the World
A staff member who works at George Washington’s Ferry Farm and Historic Kenmore recently vacationed in London. Little George accompanied her and visited places related in some fashion to George Washington and his era as well as the city’s most popular tourist sites. ...
