'Conservator Lily Carhart determined that the bottles were imported from England..., and were likely filled with cherries picked at Mount Vernon by enslaved people, then buried in the storage area between 1758 and 1776.' https://www.archaeology.org/news/12341-240423-mount-vernon-cherries #foodarchaeology #foodhistory #EarlyUSHistory

'Conservator Lily Carhart determined that the bottles were imported from England..., and were likely filled with cherries picked at Mount Vernon by enslaved people, then buried in the storage area between 1758 and 1776.' https://www.archaeology.org/news/12341-240423-mount-vernon-cherries #foodarchaeology #foodhistory #EarlyUSHistory