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June 4, 2015 By Fairfield Foundation Leave a Comment

Finding a 17th-century farmstead in Mathews County

The 17th century was a dynamic time in Virginia history.  The arrival of English settlers at Jamestown in 1607 initiated a massive transformation of the landscape, both natural and cultural. The constant influx of European immigrants from the 1620s onwards resulted in large amounts of land opened for settlement.  As the colonists pushed the local Virginia Indian tribes out […]

Filed Under: Archaeology, Education, Preservation Tagged With: 17th-century, archaeology, Artifacts, Early Colonists, excavation, local history, Mathews County, Virginia

May 14, 2015 By Fairfield Foundation Leave a Comment

New Quarter Park: Award-Winning Volunteer Involvement in Archaeology!

Following our fourth public archaeology dig at New Quarter Park in York County, we are as excited as ever about the amazing archaeological discoveries that volunteers are helping reveal at this site. At New Quarter Park we have enjoyed tremendous success excavating and finding remarkable things, partnering with several community organizations (including New Quarter Park, York County […]

Filed Under: Archaeology, Education, Events, Preservation Tagged With: 18th Century, archaeology, Artifacts, Burwell family, Engagement, excavation, fairfield foundation, New Quarter Park, public archaeology, Public Artifact Washing, TVHS, Volunteers, York County, York County Historical Museum

March 29, 2015 By Fairfield Foundation 1 Comment

A Look at Colonial Drains

Archaeologists are always finding remarkable features that provide new insight into the colonial world. One type of feature that shows up with some regularity, yet receives very little attention, is the lowly drain. Serving a strictly utilitarian, though very useful, purpose and intentionally buried upon completion, drains are rarely remembered and generally forgotten. On many […]

Filed Under: Archaeology, Preservation Tagged With: 18th Century, archaeology, Colonial Drains, Colonial Williamsburg, Corotoman, excavation, Gloucester County, manor house, Plantation, Research, Rosewell, Tudor Place, Virginia, Westover

March 6, 2015 By Fairfield Foundation 6 Comments

Locating North End Plantation

For several years the Fairfield Foundation and the Middle Peninsula Chapter of the Archeological Society of Virginia (MPCASV) have been slowly compiling research and initiating archaeology on one of the largest historic plantations in Mathews County.  An advertisement for the property in 1830 states that it was “deemed unnecessary to describe this well known estate, […]

Filed Under: Archaeology, Education, Preservation Tagged With: 18th Century, Artifacts, Historical Documents, John Page, Mathews County, Middle Peninsula Chapter ASV, North End, Page Family, Plantation, Rosewell, Volunteers

February 2, 2015 By Fairfield Foundation 1 Comment

Archaeology in Mathews County: What do we know? Where do we go from here?

“You can’t set foot in Mathews County without tripping over a piece of history.” Many of you have heard this before, and you’d be hard pressed to argue against the sentiment.  Mathews County, along with Gloucester, Middlesex, and perhaps the majority of the Old Dominion is so infused with history that it is an important part of how […]

Filed Under: Archaeology, Education, Preservation Tagged With: Archaeological Assesment, archaeology, Artifact assemblage, Artifacts, Community, Engagement, Historic, Inventory, local history, Mathews County, Oral History, prehistoric, public archaeology, Research, Site Visit, survey, Virginia Indian

January 8, 2015 By Fairfield Foundation Leave a Comment

Decoding the Midden: Revealing the Secrets of the Most Complicated Context at Fairfield Plantation

This research stems from collaboration between The Fairfield Foundation, UNC Chapel Hill graduate student Colleen Betti, and the DAACS Research Consortium based at Monticello. Our DAACS (Digital Archaeological Archive of Comparative Slavery) colleagues are currently in Seattle for the Society for Historical Archaeology‘s Annual Conference, hosting a session of papers to provide updates on the research projects […]

Filed Under: Archaeology, Education, Preservation Tagged With: 18th Century, 19th century, African American, archaeology, Artifacts, Burwell family, Enslaved community, Fairfield Plantation, Landscape, midden, Slave Quarters, Thruston family

November 13, 2014 By Fairfield Foundation Leave a Comment

New Challenges and New Discoveries at New Quarter Park

Every research excavation has that moment when you must decide whether to keep digging, or focus your energies on the inside work- whether it’s the artifact washing, cataloging, and report writing that accompanies any archaeology project, or potentially pulling together exhibits, lectures, and other outreach to the public.  We say “research excavation” because often archaeologists are salvaging […]

Filed Under: Archaeology, Education, Preservation Tagged With: archaeology, Archeological Society of Virginia, Artifacts, ASV, education, Engagement, excavation, fairfield foundation, New Quarter Park, Preservation, public archaeology, Research, Tidewater Virginia Historical Society, Volunteers

September 30, 2014 By Fairfield Foundation Leave a Comment

Scouting and Archaeology at Fairfield

Florida. Massachusetts. New Jersey. Yorktown. Throughout the summer season, Boy Scout troops from near and far converge at Fairfield Plantation to try their hand at archaeological excavation under the hot Virginia sun. Many of these Scouts are brought together through the Bayport Scout Reservation in Jamaica, Virginia, where they spend a week working on a variety […]

Filed Under: Archaeology, Education, Preservation Tagged With: archaeology, Artifacts, Boy Scouts, Educational Programming, Engagement, excavation, fairfield foundation, Fairfield Plantation, Girl Scouts, Hands-On, public archaeology, Public Outreach, Students

September 22, 2014 By Fairfield Foundation 3 Comments

Fairfield’s History Mysteries: the elusive early cellar

Fairfield Plantation has no ghost stories (that we know of…), but we have plenty of mysteries. How was the west wing lost in 1839? Why was there a chicken tied to the front porch in 1897? Who relic hunted the top of the well adjacent the house in the mid-1980s? The most intriguing mystery? Where […]

Filed Under: Archaeology, Education, Preservation Tagged With: archaeology, Artifacts, Burwell, Colonial Williamsburg, education, excavation, fairfield foundation, Fairfield Plantation, Gloucester County, Landscape, Lewis Burwell II, Research

September 9, 2014 By Fairfield Foundation Leave a Comment

My First Field Week Experience with Fairfield: Evelyn Ayala

The following is a guest blog written by Fairfield Foundation volunteer and Adventures in Preservation workshop participant Evelyn Ayala, detailing her adventures during her first week of archaeological excavation and preservation work. With the help of Adventures in Preservation, I spent a five-day week excavating and learning with the Fairfield Foundation. I’ll admit I was […]

Filed Under: Archaeology, Education, Events, Preservation Tagged With: 19th century, Adventures in Preservation, Architecture, Colonial Williamsburg, Fairfield Plantation, foundation stabilization, Gloucester County, Guest Post, historic trades, manor house, Restoration, Volunteers

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  • “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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