Washington's boyhood home found, but no hatchet

July 2, 2008 By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID , AP Science Writer

(AP) -- The archaeologists were delighted to at last find the remains of George Washington's boyhood home but got stumped when they looked for evidence of the cherry tree and rusty hatchet.

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