GUNSTON HALL’S ARCHAEOLOGY PROGRAM
Many mysteries remain in the ground at Gunston Hall Plantation. Virtually self-sustaining, the colonial Plantation made or grew almost everything needed to support its operations and its inhabitants. Yet we do not know where on the plantation these things were done. John Mason mentioned something like 30 outbuildings in the area of the mansion. The locations of almost all of them remain unknown. Then there are the unidentified locations of the roads, the fences and the river landing, “…where all persons or things water borne, were landed or taken off….”
No less important are the clues that the earth may still hold concerning the lives of the enslaved people that lived at Gunston Hall. George Mason owned approximately 90 slaves, yet almost nothing is known about them. The places where they lived, where they worked and where, finally, they were buried have never been located. Clearly, much remains to be done in the years to come by archaeologists at Gunston Hall.
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