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Archeologists Find Washington's Boyhood Home
After seven years of digging and two dead ends, the team of archeologists looking for George Washington's boyhood home finally hit pay dirt.
Archeologists always knew the location of the 100-acre farm in Virginia where Washington grew up. Until now, however, they could not find the remains of his home. The first house they uncovered turned out to be too old to be Washington's home. The second house was too new.
Finally, on their third try, the archeologists found what they were looking for, unearthing more than half a million household artifacts from the early eighteenth century, when Washington was a boy. Among the articles they found were sewing scissors, a toothbrush, a tea set, a pipe, and a red bead that they think belonged to a slave. They also found the charred ruins of a kitchen fire, which match a story that Washington told in some of his letters about a fire his family lived through one year on Christmas Eve.
The house had eight rooms and was one-and-a-half stories tall, and was much bigger than historians had thought.
The archeologists are very excited about their discovery, but say they are far from done with their work. Their ultimate goal is to reconstruct a model of the home that history buffs can visit to learn more about our first president's boyhood.
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