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April 7, 2021 By Fairfield Foundation 3 Comments

Archaeology is revealing important clues about Woodville School

Guest blog written by Colleen Betti, doctoral candidate at UNC-Chapel Hill and long-time Fairfield Foundation friend and collaborator. In a December 2020 blog, I gave brief updates on my excavations at three of Gloucester’s historic Black schools: Woodville, Glenns/Dragon, and Bethel. Now I’d like to dive deeper into the archaeology of Woodville School and explain […]

Filed Under: Archaeology, Preservation Tagged With: 19th century, 20th century, archaeology, Gloucester History, Gloucester's black schools, historic schools, Rosenwald, Woodville School

March 8, 2021 By Fairfield Foundation 7 Comments

The Hall Site, Revisited

Blog post written by Katie Brauckmann, staff archaeologist, Fairfield Foundation. In 2018 , I wrote this blog about our ongoing work at the Hall Site (44MT0173) in Mathews County. Three years later, I’m back again to give an update now that our work in the field and the lab has concluded! Ashley McCuistion excavates the […]

Filed Under: Archaeology, History Tagged With: 18th Century, archaeology, Artifacts, education, excavation, Mathews County, Research

February 16, 2021 By Fairfield Foundation 5 Comments

“In death – no! even in the grave all is not lost.”: 19th-Century Coffin Hardware in Urbanna, VA

Blog post written by Elizabeth Donison, staff archaeologist, Fairfield Foundation. Most of us can agree that 2020 was a year of reckoning with our notion of death, and the Fairfield Foundation’s various projects seemed to align with this challenging and often depressing year. Some of you might remember our participation with the mid-19th-century graves under […]

Filed Under: History, Preservation Tagged With: 19th century, Coffin Hardware, Middlesex County, Urbanna, Victorian Era

January 10, 2021 By Fairfield Foundation 3 Comments

The Thruston Library: What One Family’s Books Tell Us About Their Past

By Jordan Knepper, Fairfield Intern The Complete Poetical Works of Alfred Tennyson (Hurst & Co Publishers, New York, 1880). Written in the back is “Tennyson died in 1892 at the ripe age of 85.” It was given to Mattis C. Harwood by L.T. Jones, December 21st, [18]’84. Jordan Knepper was a digital intern with The […]

Filed Under: Education, History, Preservation Tagged With: 19th century literature, Fairfield Plantation, Gloucester County, Tabb family, Thruston family, White Marsh

December 29, 2020 By Fairfield Foundation 2 Comments

17th-century Settlement on the York River: Fairfield Foundation Receives Grant to Research Early Archaeological Sites at Timberneck and Shelly

We are proud to announce that The Fairfield Foundation was one of 11 research, education and historical institutions and specialists to receive funding from The Conservation Fund as part of their Chesapeake Cultural Studies Grant Program. The program dispersed over $260,000 to support the research and study of cultural artifacts of the Chesapeake region. The […]

Filed Under: Archaeology, Education, Preservation

December 9, 2020 By Fairfield Foundation 5 Comments

Gloucester’s Public School Past: Archaeology and Artifact Update!

Guest blog written by Colleen Betti, current doctoral candidate at UNC-Chapel Hill and long-time Fairfield Foundation friend. In 2019, I wrote a guest blog post talking about the research I was doing on Gloucester’s schools. In the year and a half since then, I’ve excavated 54 test units at three of Gloucester’s black schools. Woodville […]

Filed Under: Archaeology, Education Tagged With: black schools, Early 20th century schools, Gloucester County, historic schools, segregation

November 25, 2020 By Fairfield Foundation 4 Comments

Happy 20th Anniversary Fairfield Foundation

In November 2000, we dug our first shovel tests at Fairfield, beginning 20 years of public archaeology on the Middle Peninsula. To dig at Fairfield had been a dream held by Co-Directors David Brown and Thane Harpole for several years- we never thought it would come to fruition so quickly. The two decades that followed […]

Filed Under: Archaeology, Education, Preservation

October 2, 2020 By Fairfield Foundation Leave a Comment

Fairfield Virtual History Marathon is underway!

Yesterday marked the start of our October adventure, a virtual history marathon! Participants pay $25 to register for the race, and have 30 days to log 26.2 miles, from anywhere. Although the race started October 1, it’s not too late to join! The activity options are almost endless – you can log activities like croquet, […]

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July 28, 2020 By Fairfield Foundation 7 Comments

Witness to Change: The Rise and Fall of Monument Avenue’s Confederate Statues

Disclaimer: Some images contain mature content. Every spring over 20,000 runners gather at the east end of Monument Avenue in Richmond, Virginia to participate in the Ukrop’s Monument Avenue 10k. Spectators line the wide grassy medians to cheer on the runners while enjoying live music and beautiful scenery. The course spans the length of Monument […]

Filed Under: 3D model, drone, Preservation Tagged With: 3D model, Monument Avenue, Preservation, Richmond

July 17, 2020 By Fairfield Foundation 2 Comments

Excavations continue at Fairfield to prepare for the protective structure!

While the rest of the world slowed down this spring, our team has been keeping busy excavating test units around the manor house at Fairfield! Our current focus is on clearing the areas that will be impacted by post holes for our new protective structure, which is scheduled for construction later this summer. We started […]

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  • Archaeology is revealing important clues about Woodville School April 7, 2021
  • The Hall Site, Revisited March 8, 2021
  • “In death – no! even in the grave all is not lost.”: 19th-Century Coffin Hardware in Urbanna, VA February 16, 2021
  • The Thruston Library: What One Family’s Books Tell Us About Their Past January 10, 2021
  • 17th-century Settlement on the York River: Fairfield Foundation Receives Grant to Research Early Archaeological Sites at Timberneck and Shelly December 29, 2020

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  • Archaeology is revealing important clues about Woodville School April 7, 2021
  • The Hall Site, Revisited March 8, 2021
  • “In death – no! even in the grave all is not lost.”: 19th-Century Coffin Hardware in Urbanna, VA February 16, 2021

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