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January 10, 2021 By Fairfield Foundation 3 Comments

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

By Jordan Knepper, Fairfield Intern The Complete Poetical Works of Alfred Tennyson (Hurst & Co Publishers, New York, 1880). Written in the back is “Tennyson died in 1892 at the ripe age of 85.” It was given to Mattis C. Harwood by L.T. Jones, December 21st, [18]’84. Jordan Knepper was a digital intern with The […]

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 2 Comments

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

November 25, 2020 By Fairfield Foundation 4 Comments

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

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

February 21, 2020 By Fairfield Foundation 14 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

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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From the blog

  • 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
  • Gloucester’s Public School Past: Archaeology and Artifact Update! December 9, 2020
  • Happy 20th Anniversary Fairfield Foundation November 25, 2020
  • Fairfield Virtual History Marathon is underway! October 2, 2020

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

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