GUNSTON HALL’S ARCHAEOLOGY PROGRAM
The mansion at Gunston Hall Plantation has survived remarkably well over the years. Architectural and room use studies have permitted the house to be presented nearly the way it appeared when George Mason and his family lived here in the 18th Century. Several lines of evidence suggest that Mason designed the house and the formal landscape as extensions of each other, a single entity that functioned as one continuous living space.
Little information, unfortunately, has come down to us concerning what George Mason’s landscape may have looked like. Seeking out clues in the ground that may allow the replication of what Mason saw when he stepped outside of his house is the task of the Gunston Hall archaeology program.
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