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April 15, 2021 By Fairfield Foundation

Dr. Walter Reed and Yellow Fever: Part 1

The Fairfield Foundation announced a collaborative partnership with the Gloucester Preservation Foundation last year. As part of our agreement, we will care for Dr. Walter Reed’s Birthplace and the surrounding property while hosting public events and educational experiences there. Though Reed was in Gloucester for only a short time, the house where he was born […]

Filed Under: Events, Preservation Tagged With: Gloucester County, Pandemic, Walter Reed Birthplace, Yellow Fever

April 7, 2021 By Fairfield Foundation

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

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

“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

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

By Jordan Knepper, Fairfield Intern Jordan Knepper was a digital intern with The Fairfield Foundation in the summer and fall of 2020. He recently completed his undergraduate degree in history from Regent University. I have spent several weeks this past summer exploring a collection of books owned by the Thruston family of Gloucester. The Thrustons […]

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

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

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

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

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