Archeologists make significant discovery in the cellars of Mount Vernon

Experts say the artifacts haven't been seen in about 250 years and may have been used by George Washington himself.

[davidshane]

Being a bottle collector it blew my mind that they opened them and cleaned them. It made my heart sink. I would have preferred the content stay in the bottle and the patina be left alone. It's like how a coin collector would feel after someone cleaned an old coin. SAD

[jgcelliott]

Something hilarious about the hardhats and safety vests as they scratch around with paintbrushes and dental picks.
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[WillowEverlight]

I can't believe they emptied those bottles.

[yahya]

"Understand their stories and their lives through these items". Through a bottle of cherries? 😂😂

[MarSchlosser]

Rum cherries! Small, wild cherries that turn black when dead ripe are sweet, and still used to flavor rum and homemade sour mash. My mother said when she was small, her mother would put them in jugs of the product Mom's uncles cooked off for the speakeasy in Olie Valley, PA.

Now in Arizona, I have a Mexican native, capulin, which is a rum cherry. Think long strings of blooms each spring. Then strings of cherries covered with bird netting to keep the feathered creeps from stealing all of them.

[terryt.]

I bet it’s Cherry Bounce! Washington’s favorite drink. I make it from Martha’s recipe almost every year. 🥰💕❤️👍👍

[bryanparkhurst]

Pair that juice with some of the mastodon that was unearthed and some of that cheese from Switzerland back in the 90s and you guys got a meal.

[redneckhippiefreak]

I have a Pie Safe from the 1790's.. It still has a Blueberry preserve that spilled on the top. From time to time I will clean the dust off the top and To this day, when I get it wet, the smell of Blueberries waft from it for weeks.

[colddeadhands]

These "scientists " make bigger reaches than "meteorologists"

[treyporter]

Heartbreaking they opened both bottles. These people are experts so there must be a reason why

[scottgust]

how is it these people are so baffled by historical evidence only as few hundred years old...meanwhile we know libraries worth of info about 4k year old egyptians

[TC-pyoo]

Where is it written that just solves buried these bottles

[wardarcade]

I wonder how these late 18th century cultivated cherries compare in terms of nutrition, etc. to contemporary mass produced GMO cherries?

[peggythompson]

Why do all these people today try to insinuate that only black people did any work in those days. Everyone worked. I am truly sick of all these so called historians trying to place modern day values and practices on those who lived long ago. The past is the past. I do not think trying to rewrite it makes history better.

[JustAParodyOfTheEntBiz]

Those from the cherry tree Washington swore he didn't chop down as a kid?

[roysnider]

I wonder if they would be treated with such reverence and awe if they were proven to be made and buried by Martha.

[votpavel]

should have put the liquid in glass jars, plastic jars might ruin the contents

[keithfred]

They showed Maine but it wasn’t in Maine? What did I miss?

[CRuf-qwyv]

It never ceases to amaze me how enthralled people are about allegedly being the first to touch an artifact after a couple of hundred yrs. For all we know, some maintrenance workers could have found them in the 1960's and set them on the floor which eventually was covered with more rubbish, leaves, and dust. Heck anyone can go out and pick up a rock and be the first to ever touch that piece of geology....ever. I think we all like archaology and associate it (many time) with irresponsible treaure hunting. And while that field is interesting, it is difficult to make it a well-paying career without a minimum doctorate.

[chrisbrowne]

Slaves came from cultures that did not make glass, grow fruit, preserve it. The things they learned changed those cultures for the better.