Archeologists find Washington's boyhood home

FREDERICKSBURG, Virginia (CNN) - After three years of excavation, archeologists have confirmed the discovery of the site of George Washington's boyhood home near the banks of the Rappahannock River in northeast Virginia.

Digging into the red clay of Ferry Farm, a former plantation in Fredericksburg, has unearthed the footprint of the home of the nation's first president when he was a young boy, the George Washington Foundation announced Wednesday.

The foundation believes the Washington family moved to the site in 1738 when George was just six years old. Washington lived there until 1754 when, at the age of 20, he moved to his plantation, Mount Vernon. The future president's mother, Mary Washington, lived at Ferry Farm until 1772.

–From CNN's Eric Marrapodi