Dr. Gaila Sims talks about telling the full story of the Slave Auction block. And how the exhibit allows you to express your feelings. famva.org

Artifacts found outside come inside. They’re cleaned and cataloged and some become part of a puzzle. And part of telling the story about what happened on the land.

Preserving history. The actions of a farmer on the Ferry Farm site preserved history that is just now being discovered.

There have been some surprises at the annual dig at George Washington’s boyhood home in Stafford. Enough surprises that archaeologists will be back in the same area next summer.

A close look at where the annual digging at George Washington’s boyhood home has been taking place this summer.

Finding two tobacco pipe bowls–one of the complete-during the annual summer dig at George Washington’s boyhood home, Ferry Farm in Stafford. Dave Muraca puts a date on it and talks about what it tells archaeologists.

The annual summer archaeological excavation at Ferry Farm, George Washington’s boyhood home in Stafford unearthed two tobacco pipe bowls–one of them complete.

Listen to the Declaration of Independence. Sign the document. Washington Heritage Museums gave you the chance on 4th of July in downtown Fredericksburg.

Re-enactor Paul Limerick with The George Washington Foundation talks about food and fire.

George Washington and colonial times up close.

General Washington at his boyhood home