The E-Sylum:  Volume 7, Number 13, March 28, 2004, Article 8

WASHINGTON INAUGURAL BUTTON FOUND IN DIG

  A 1789 George Washington inaugural button and other
  artifacts were recently unearthed in Maryland.

  "Archeologists at the site of the Blue Ball road project off
  U.S. 202 have found memorabilia related to George Washington
  and Abraham Lincoln.

  The Delaware Department of Transportation said Wednesday
  the dig at the old Weldin farmhouse off Foulk Road turned up
  a brass button that commemorated the 1789 inauguration of
  George Washington as the nation's first president."

  "The button, about an inch and a half in diameter, has the
  initials of the original 13 Colonies and the words "Long Live
  the President" in a circle around the initials "GW."

  "Barbara Shaffer, lead archeologist, said the button likely was
  sewn to a coat and probably fell off and dropped between the
  kitchen floorboards, where it remained until her team found it
  on March 3. Researchers believe tenant farmers were living in
  the house in the late 1700s.

  Shaffer said there are only about 50 other buttons like it. The
  buttons were handed out to delegates at the inauguration and
  were also available for purchase by people who attended, said
  Richard White, field director for the project."
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  Wayne Homren, Editor

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