Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story:A renovation project at George Washington’s Mount Vernon mansion uncovered two sealed glass bottles full of cherries. When archaeologists poured the liquid out of two European-manufactured bottles found under a brick floor at George Washington’s Mount Vernon mansion, they enjoyed the scent of cherry blossoms. The once-forgotten and now-found bottles were likely filled with cherries before the Revolutionary War in the mid-1770s and have sat sealed—and preserved—ever since. “Not only did we recover intact, sealed bottles, but they contained organic material that can provide us with valuable insight and perspective into 18th-century lives at Mount Vernon,” Jason Boroughs, Mount Vernon principal archaeologist, says in a statement. That makes the cherries likely pre-Revolutionary War fruit.