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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

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 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

February 25, 2018 By Fairfield Foundation 3 Comments

The Past in Plastic: 3D Printing Archaeology at Fairfield

It’s been a busy few months since our last update on the Fairfield Model Project, which began last summer with a grant from Harry and Judy Wason. We started documenting the southern wall of the manor ruins at Fairfield in August (read about it here) and have since made amazing progress in our development of […]

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August 30, 2017 By Fairfield Foundation 4 Comments

Preserving Fairfield from the Ground Up!

Last week we hosted our second Adventures in Preservation (AiP) workshop of 2017 and made great progress at Fairfield Plantation. We opened a new excavation block on the south end of the house foundation, and continued work around a collapsed chimney that we’ve been excavating for the past two summers. The AiP participants (aka “Jammers”) started […]

Filed Under: 3D model, Archaeology, drone, Education, Preservation Tagged With: 3D model, Adventures in Preservation, archaeology, Burwell, drone, education, Engagement, excavation, fairfield foundation, Fairfield Plantation, Gloucester County, Preservation, public archaeology

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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
  • Gloucester’s Public School Past: Archaeology and Artifact Update! December 9, 2020
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News From the Blog

  • “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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