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Dig Finds Washington's Home (No Cherry Tree)

Posted Jul 2, 08 6:20 PM CDT in US 

(Newser) – Archaeologists have found the childhood home of George Washington, the New York Times reports—and despite the popular legend, there's no cherry tree anywhere on the premises. Researchers describe the founding father's Virginia digs as “a very nice gentry house” sporting eight rooms—not the simple cottage pictured in popular imagination.

“What we see at this site is the best available window into the setting that nurtured the father of our country,” said archaeologist Philip Levy. The researchers found several artifacts confirming the house’s identity; among them are wine bottles, cutlery, wig curlers, bone toothbrushes, and a pipe bearing a Masonic crest that might have actually been smoked by George.

Source New York Times

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This undated image shows eighteenth-century wig curlers of various sizes were found in one of the cellars of the Washington house by the archaeologists digging at Ferry Farm.   (AP Photo)
This undated image provided by National Geographic and George Washington Foundation, shows fragments of expensive, hand-painted pottery, part of a Creamware tea set.   (AP Photo)
In this undated image provided by National Geographic, researchers examine evidence of a fire that damaged the Washington family's Virginia home in 1740.   (AP Photo)
This undated image provided by National Geographic and George Washington Foundation, archaeology technician Erin Goslin washes archaeological material at the site of the Washington family house in Stafford...   (AP Photo/National Geographic, Adrian Coakley)
This undated image provided by National Geographic and George Washington Foundation shows the surviving architectural footprint of the Washington family house.   (AP Photo)
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