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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

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

April 17, 2018 By Fairfield Foundation 4 Comments

The CAPE crosses the finish line!

  With the recent ribbon cutting at the CAPE we have reached the exciting end of a long journey. In 2010 we purchased the Edge Hill Service Station and embarked on a dream to transform this 1930s gas station into a regional center for the archaeological, preservation and education efforts of the Fairfield Foundation. The […]

Filed Under: Education, Events, Preservation Tagged With: Architectural Conservation, CAPE, Community, Edge Hill Service Station, education, Engagement, fairfield foundation, Fundraising, Gloucester County, Gloucester Courthouse, local history, Preservation, Restoration, Volunteers

March 17, 2018 By Fairfield Foundation 2 Comments

The Hall Site: A “Hallmark” of Mathews County

Guest Blog author Katie Brauckmann has worked with the Fairfield Foundation/DATA Investigations for three years, first as a volunteer and intern, and now as a part-time employee. Katie is a sophomore anthropology major at James Madison University.  The Hall Site (44MT0173) is a predominately 18th-century site located in Mathews County, Virginia. Conrad Hall, former President […]

Filed Under: Archaeology, Education, Preservation Tagged With: 18th Century, 19th century, archaeology, Artifacts, education, excavation, Guest Post, local history, Mathews County, Research, survey

November 15, 2017 By Fairfield Foundation 2 Comments

A Long-Lost Site Reveals Many Stories at York County’s New Quarter Park

By guest blogger Sara E. Lewis If you’ve never joined the Fairfield Foundation for a public dig at New Quarter Park in York County, then you’re missing out on some exciting finds! In the most recent round of excavations, a young volunteer was excited to find this Very Cool Artifact: a locally-made tobacco pipe stem […]

Filed Under: Archaeology, Education, Events, Preservation Tagged With: 17th-century, 18th Century, archaeology, Armistead, Artifacts, Bookbinder, Burwell, education, Engagement, excavation, New Quarter Park, public archaeology, tobacco pipes, Volunteers, York County

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

November 1, 2016 By Fairfield Foundation 3 Comments

Archaeological Journey to Chincoteague

There are many great reasons to take a trip to Chincoteague. This barrier island holding out against the Atlantic Ocean has its own storied history and unique culture, attracting visitors from far and wide who want to experience its solitude and seaside, its salt marsh and sunsets, and its quiet charm. We came for the […]

Filed Under: Archaeology, Education Tagged With: archaeology, Artifacts, education, Engagement, excavation, public archaeology, Volunteers

September 20, 2016 By Fairfield Foundation 12 Comments

Extraction and Excavation: Archaeology of a Collapsed House Ruin

The house is magnificent.  It is everything that you would want in an 18th-century Virginia manor- symmetry, mass, rhythm- and it sits boldly on an elevated landscape surrounded by extensive cropland rimmed with forest and descending towards complex terraced gardens and a wide creek in the distance. It also stands out in the Flemish-bond land of Tidewater, with its rough, […]

Filed Under: Archaeology, Education, Preservation Tagged With: 18th Century, archaeology, Architectural Conservation, Artifacts, education, Engagement, excavation, Preservation, public archaeology, Research, Restoration

June 23, 2016 By Fairfield Foundation 4 Comments

Fairfield, Abingdon, and Carter’s Grove, 1924

One of the most interesting emails we’ve received in the Fairfield Foundation’s sixteen year existence arrived on March 9th at 11:09 pm.  The subject line was simple: Old Pictures.  It started our minds racing, especially after more than 15 years of researching the history of Fairfield plantation, and the Burwell, Thruston, and other families that lived […]

Filed Under: Archaeology, Education, Preservation Tagged With: 18th Century, Abindgon Church, Architectural Conservation, Burwell family, Carter's Grove, Community, education, Fairfield Plantation, Gloucester County, local history, Preservation

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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
  • Gloucester’s Public School Past: Archaeology and Artifact Update! December 9, 2020
  • Happy 20th Anniversary Fairfield Foundation November 25, 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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