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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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February 21, 2020 By Fairfield Foundation 17 Comments

Places Worth Saving: The Booker Family’s Three Landmark Buildings on Gloucester’s Main Street

There are three prominent structures located on the north side of Main Street in Gloucester that are often called the Booker buildings. Each has its own history, and they have endured changes through the years, but all were built and maintained by the Booker family. Sadly, the buildings are currently slated for destruction, as the […]

Filed Under: Preservation Tagged With: 20th-century history, Booker family, Gloucester Courthouse, Gloucester Main Street, Main Street

December 23, 2019 By Fairfield Foundation 2 Comments

A Golden Lion’s Paw

Yep. You read that title correctly. A golden lion’s paw. While this certainly ranks highly on any list of “coolest things ever found,” it is also the inspiration for an amazing collaboration between three institutions that value meaning and substance as much as they do the “Wow” factor. As organizations dedicated to public archaeology and […]

Filed Under: Archaeology, Education, Preservation Tagged With: 3D printing, 3D technology, Archaeological collections, archaeology, Artifacts, collaboration, Collections

September 3, 2019 By Fairfield Foundation 1 Comment

Preservation vs. Growth

Updates from a summer researcher: Ruth Blair Moyers, Masters of Architecture candidate at MIT Preservation is not only a question of history but it is also a topic that deserves attention from the fields of architecture and urban planning. Historically, when architecture overlaps with the field of history, it is through historic preservation of buildings […]

Filed Under: 3D model, Archaeology, drone, Preservation Tagged With: 3D model, 3D technology, Civil War, history, Monument Avenue, Richmond

July 17, 2019 By Fairfield Foundation 5 Comments

Three Weeks as a Fairfield Intern: Rachel Shin, 2019

Guest blog by summer intern Rachel Shin, a high-school student from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Week 1:On the first day of my internship, I got to dive into field work right off the bat. We made the short trip to Tucker Store in Gloucester Courthouse, a lot where a general store once stood. I began excavating a […]

Filed Under: Archaeology, Education Tagged With: 18th Century, 19th century, African American history, archaeology intern, Fairfield Plantation, intern, Research, slave quarter

April 24, 2019 By Fairfield Foundation 2 Comments

Delving into Gloucester’s Public School Past

Guest blog written by Colleen Betti, current doctoral candidate at UNC-Chapel Hill and long-time Fairfield Foundation friend. In 1912, Gloucester County’s surveyor and superintendent of public schools, R.A. Folkes, illustrated a map showing all of the public schools in the county. At the time, he identified 20 black schools and 20 white schools.  This nearly […]

Filed Under: Education, Preservation Tagged With: 19th century, 20th century, education, gloucester, local history, public education, public schools, segregation

March 7, 2019 By Fairfield Foundation 2 Comments

History’s Mysteries: Toddsbury’s Lost Plantation Landscape Revealed One Building at a Time

This blog was prepared by intrepid and passionate avocational archaeologists Jim Gloor and Carol Reynolds. WHAT MEASURES 13.4 FEET X 13.2 FEET, CONTAINS OVER 1000 LBS OF HINGED OYSTER SHELLS, AND RESIDES AT TODDSBURY? The excavations continue at Toddsbury (44GL0264), a 17th– to 19th– century historic plantation located on the Middle Peninsula along the west […]

Filed Under: Archaeology, Preservation

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

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