Publications

Archaeology

Five articles about Mount Vernon's archaeology program were published in the Archeology Society of Virginia's Quarterly Bulletin, December 2006, Vol. 61, Number 4.

• Archaeology at George Washington's Mount Vernon, 1931-2006

• Blacksmithing at George Washington's Mount Vernon

• Home is Where the Trash Is:  Excavating the Early Households of Mount Vernon

• Archaeology and Restoration Along Mount Vernon's South Lane

• "A Pretty Considerable Distillery":  Excavating George Washington's Whiskey Distillery

Mount Vernon's South Grove

• "If you should be in want of a new set of China..."  George Washington and the Consumer Revolution

• Images for George Washington and the Consumer Revolution
• Whose Trash is it Anyway?  Eleanor Breen's MA Thesis uses ceramics to date the midden
• Appendices and References for Whose Trash is it Anyway?

• Coarse Earthenwares from the South Grove Midden

• Images for Coarse Earthenwares from the Midden

• Growing up a Washington:  18th-Century Childhood at Ferry Farm and Mount Vernon
• Images for Growing up a Washington

George Washington's Distillery was the focus of a session at the Society for Historical Archaeology's annual meeting in 2004.  The papers detail the excavation, research and reconstruction of this building.

• Shad, Wheat and Rye (Whiskey):  George Washington, Entrepreneur

• "To Erect a Large Distillery":  An Architectural Reconstruction

• Whiskey in the Rocks:  Excavating and Interpreting George Washington's Distillery

• Tourists, Schoolchildren and Liquor Lobbyists:  The Various Publics of the Distillery

• Distilling the Future:  Reconstructing Washington's Distillery

• Comments on the Distilling the Past Session

Other Projects

• Flowerpots from Mount Vernon's Upper Garden

• Washington, Revolutionary Farmer:  America's First Composter

Restoration

Mansion

• Restoration of the Small Dining Room

• A Venetian Window was restored in the Mansion's Large Dining Room

Outbuildings

• Restoration of the Spinning House

• Restoration of the Servant's Hall