George Washington never did cut down the cherry tree, despite the famous story to the contrary, but he did pack away quite a few bottles of the fruit at his Mount Vernon home. 18th-century glass bottles that contained cherries and berries sit inside an archaeology lab near George Washington's residence in Mount Vernon. Jason Boroughs, Mount Vernon's principal archaeologist, said …
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