George Washington's Boyhood Home Found


	George Washington's Boyhood Home Found

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10-8-2008 11:25 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color:#ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/68f34066-138c-402e-a1fd-0e3f8ee610b0/53669515-4F05-4E2C-9D3E-BE78AE4F4DCD/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.newsweek.com/id/144354?tid=relatedcl" href="http://www.newsweek.com/id/144354?tid=relatedcl" style="font-size: 11px;">www.newsweek.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newsweek.com/id/144354?tid=relatedcl">They didn't find the shriveled stump of a cherry tree, much less a rusty old 
hatchet, but archaeologists have finally discovered and excavated the remains of 
<A class=related title="George Washington" 
href="http://www.newsweek.com/related.aspx?subject=George+Washington">George 
Washington</A>'s boyhood home</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newsweek.com/id/144354?tid=relatedcl">historical archeologist <A class=related title="Philip Levy" 
href="http://www.newsweek.com/related.aspx?subject=Philip+Levy">Philip Levy</A>, 
of the <A class=related title="University of South Florida-who" 
href="http://www.newsweek.com/related.aspx?subject=University+of+South+Florida-who">University 
of South Florida—who</A> oversees USF's field school at Ferry Farm, the 
Washington family homestead near Fredericksburg, Va.—said at a press conference 
this morning announcing the discovery.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newsweek.com/id/144354?tid=relatedcl">It took seven years and at least two dead ends to find the home on Ferry Farm 
where Augustine Washington, George's father, <A 
href="http://www.kenmore.org/ferryfarm_homepage.html" target=_blank>moved his 
family in 1738</A>, when George was 6, and where they remained until 1772.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newsweek.com/id/144354?tid=relatedcl">by comparing the remains to written records of Washington's childhood home and 
by dating the thousands of artifacts they unearthed, that they had found the 
long-sought home. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newsweek.com/id/144354?tid=relatedcl">"There is little actual documentary evidence of Washington's formative years. 
What we see at this site is the best available window into the setting that 
nurtured the father of our country."</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/53669515-4F05-4E2C-9D3E-BE78AE4F4DCD/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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