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Presidents Day Discovery | National Geographic

Mar 26, 2024
If George Washington really had cut down a cherry tree, he would have done it here and if he ever threw a rock across the Rappahannock River, then this is the place where both childhood stories have found their way into the legend of the commander in chief of george washington of the continental army and ultimately the first president of the united states, but the reality of washington's early life may equal the myth that he was one of five children who grew up on a farm in the north of Virginia and achieved greatness and now archaeologists work near Fredericksburg with their support. of the National Geographic Society have discovered the exact site of that same farm.
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Washington's father, Augustine, moved his family to Ferry Farm in 1738, when young George was six years old. The future president lived here until he was 20. Archaeologists always knew this was the right place. area, but only when the team discovered some well-crafted vendors did they realize they had found the actual foundation of Washington's childhood home. What we have discovered is the landscape of Washington as it was between 1740 and 1770, but there are other dependencies in that landscape as well. including a kitchen, a slave quarter, the site is incredibly rich in history and not just Washington, it's a complicated site, it's a complicated site, it's a site that had continuous occupation from about 1700 to the early 1990s and not In the same buildings are trenches here built during the Civil War by Union troops fighting to capture the rebel hellhole of Fredericksburg, the team has already found thousands of artifacts, but one potentially special find deserves attention: a clay pipe with Masonic symbols: George Washington was a bricklayer, actually became a bricklayer when he was Living in Fredericksburg without being able to say for sure, it's tempting to wonder if this isn't something that actually belonged to George.
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Each piece is cleaned, cataloged and stored. It's all part of the team's ultimate goal of recreating what until recently was thought lost. In the long term, where we are sitting will once again become the home of Augustine Washington, with its landscape in place, with animals and crops growing, and will be open to the public to come and experience as an 18th century farm and yes , visitors will have the opportunity to see if they, too, can throw a rock across the Rappahannock as Washington supposedly did, sponsored by National Geographic Mission programs that bring science and exploration into the new millennium.
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