Historic Waynesborough Preserves 18th Century Sheffield Silver with Help from DAR
The National Society Daughters of the American Revolution Historic Preservation Grants program has helped preserve eight historically significant pieces of silver. Before and after photos of a tea caddy, one … Continue reading
Holiday Open House and Candlelight Tours at Historic Waynesborough
Take a candlelit tour through the halls of the 18th-century mansion Revolutionary War General Anthony Wayne once called home, and hear about holiday traditions of the past, 4-6 p.m. Sunday, … Continue reading
Leather Firebuckets Filled with Sand or Water
Leather firebuckets, so necessary in 17th and 18th-century America, would be filled with water or sand to quickly douse house fires. These authentic reproductions marked with Anthony Wayne and I. … Continue reading
The Wayne Parlour
This is the parlour in the 1765 section of Waynesborough as it appeared in a copy of Frank Leslie’s Boy’s & Girl’s Weekly, ca. 1880. Today many of the furnishings … Continue reading
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