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April 26, 2021 By Fairfield Foundation

Dr. Walter Reed and Yellow Fever: Part 2

In case you missed it: Dr. Walter Reed and Yellow Fever Part 1 When the Civil War broke out, Walter Reed’s older brothers, Tom and James, fought on the side of the Confederacy. The Reed family had left Gloucester County and were living in the Piedmont countryside.  Walter, who was barely a teenager at the […]

Filed Under: Education, Preservation Tagged With: 19th century, 20th century, Epidemic, Gloucester County, Gloucester History, Modern Medicine, Pandemic, Walter Reed, Walter Reed Birthplace, Yellow Fever

April 15, 2021 By Fairfield Foundation

Dr. Walter Reed and Yellow Fever: Part 1

The Fairfield Foundation announced a collaborative partnership with the Gloucester Preservation Foundation last year. As part of our agreement, we will care for Dr. Walter Reed’s Birthplace and the surrounding property while hosting public events and educational experiences there. Though Reed was in Gloucester for only a short time, the house where he was born […]

Filed Under: Events, Preservation Tagged With: Gloucester County, Pandemic, Walter Reed Birthplace, Yellow Fever

January 10, 2021 By Fairfield Foundation

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 9, 2020 By Fairfield Foundation

Gloucester’s Public School Past: Archaeology and Artifact Update!

Guest blog written by Colleen Betti, current doctoral candidate at UNC-Chapel Hill and long-time Fairfield Foundation friend. In 2019, I wrote a guest blog post talking about the research I was doing on Gloucester’s schools. In the year and a half since then, I’ve excavated 54 test units at three of Gloucester’s black schools. Woodville […]

Filed Under: Archaeology, Education Tagged With: black schools, Early 20th century schools, Gloucester County, historic schools, segregation

February 25, 2019 By Fairfield Foundation

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

December 21, 2018 By Fairfield Foundation

Students across the Middle Peninsula: Fairfield’s Educational Outreach in 2018

Since our founding in 2000, the Fairfield Foundation has been dedicated to involving the community in our efforts to discover and preserve local history through hands-on learning experiences. These include public dig days, lab nights,school programs and activities at local events and festivals. Victoria Gum excavates with young volunteers at the Gloucester Daffodil Festival in […]

Filed Under: Archaeology, Education Tagged With: archaeology, Educational Outreach, Gloucester County

July 23, 2018 By Fairfield Foundation

Fairfield Mantel Returns Home

The Fairfield manor house is most recognized for its massive diagonally-set chimney stacks. which stand out to anyone who sees them. The house had several sets, including two doubles and two triples, although one set was lost around 1839 when the west wing came down. These iconic elements of this once grand building are only […]

Filed Under: Archaeology, Preservation Tagged With: 17th-century, archaeology, Architectural Conservation, Artifacts, Burwell family, Fairfield, Fairfield Plantation, Gloucester County, Preservation

April 17, 2018 By Fairfield Foundation

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

August 30, 2017 By Fairfield Foundation

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

June 23, 2016 By Fairfield Foundation

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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