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February 25, 2019 By Fairfield Foundation 8 Comments

Irene Morgan: Virginia’s Freedom Fighter

Irene Morgan             In 1944, a woman named Irene Morgan was riding a bus from Hayes to her home in Baltimore.  Ms. Morgan was at a hard point in her life.  She was a mother to several children and had just suffered a painful and dangerous pregnancy ending in miscarriage.  After an operation associated with this, […]

Filed Under: Preservation Tagged With: 20th century, Black History Month, Civil Rights, Gloucester County, local history, Oral History

January 11, 2019 By Fairfield Foundation Leave a Comment

Conservation Update: Fairfield Cast Iron Stove Under the X-ray!

Thanks to Kate Ridgway at the Department of Historic Resources, we have an update on the conservation of our cast iron stove excavated at Fairfield!  For background information on this project, you can read our previous blog post “What’s Under the Rust? Preserving and Conserving Fairfield’s Cast Iron Stove”. As our previous post described, the […]

Filed Under: Archaeology, Preservation Tagged With: 19th century, Artifacts, Conservation, Department of Historic Resources, Fairfield manor house, Fairfield Plantation, iron conservation

December 21, 2018 By Fairfield Foundation Leave a Comment

Students across the Middle Peninsula: Fairfield’s Educational Outreach in 2018

Since our founding in 2000, the Fairfield Foundation has been dedicated to involving the community in our efforts to discover and preserve local history through hands-on learning experiences. These include public dig days, lab nights,school programs and activities at local events and festivals. Victoria Gum excavates with young volunteers at the Gloucester Daffodil Festival in […]

Filed Under: Archaeology, Education Tagged With: archaeology, Educational Outreach, Gloucester County

October 26, 2018 By Fairfield Foundation 17 Comments

Gone Before We Knew to Look: Searching for Green Book Sites in Rural Virginia

This project arose out of a seemingly random email.  Dr. Jessica Taylor (Virginia Tech) caught a reference to the Watkins Motel and Florist at Gloucester Courthouse when she was conducting background research for our collaborative oral history project on Main Street (supported by the Gloucester Main Street Preservation Trust).  She passed along a link to […]

Filed Under: Education, Preservation Tagged With: Architectural Conservation, education, Engagement, fairfield foundation, local history, Oral History, Preservation

August 9, 2018 By Fairfield Foundation 1 Comment

What’s Under the Rust? Preserving and Conserving Fairfield’s Cast Iron Stove

We love doing archaeology at a variety of sites across the Middle Peninsula, but Fairfield Plantation will always be our home.  There are thousands of fascinating artifacts that have been recovered from the manor house and surrounding property, and we don’t always have the time or resources to give them the attention and care they […]

Filed Under: Archaeology, Education, Preservation Tagged With: 19th century, Artifacts, Conservation, education, Excelsior, Fairfield Plantation, iron conservation, manor house

July 23, 2018 By Fairfield Foundation 1 Comment

Fairfield Mantel Returns Home

The Fairfield manor house is most recognized for its massive diagonally-set chimney stacks. which stand out to anyone who sees them. The house had several sets, including two doubles and two triples, although one set was lost around 1839 when the west wing came down. These iconic elements of this once grand building are only […]

Filed Under: Archaeology, Preservation Tagged With: 17th-century, archaeology, Architectural Conservation, Artifacts, Burwell family, Fairfield, Fairfield Plantation, Gloucester County, Preservation

July 9, 2018 By Fairfield Foundation 1 Comment

Join us for Adventures in August!

Where else can you work with historic ruins, 3-D models, artifacts, and drones? For the seventh year in a row, Fairfield Foundation is teaming up with Adventures in Preservation to host enthusiastic and curious preservationists who want to learn how to excavate, document, and preserve our past. The week-long experience (August 12 to 18, 2018) […]

Filed Under: 3D model, Archaeology, drone, Education, Events, Preservation Tagged With: 17th-century, 18th Century, 19th century, Adventures in Preservation, Fairfield Plantation, Historic Preservation, Preservation Workshop

May 3, 2018 By Fairfield Foundation 5 Comments

Anything But Ordinary

Twenty years ago, two young archaeology students, David Brown and Thane Harpole, surveyed a farmstead site located in Gloucester County, Virginia, dating to the late 17th to early 18th centuries. The property was originally patented in the 1670s by Robert Bryan and was eventually part of the adjacent Belle Farm plantation. After the Civil War, […]

Filed Under: Archaeology, Education, Preservation Tagged With: 18th Century, Archaeological collections, archaeology, Artifacts, Collections, local history, Plantation, Research, Volunteers

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  • 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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