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March 6, 2015 By Fairfield Foundation

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Filed Under: Archaeology, Education, Preservation Tagged With: 18th Century, Artifacts, Historical Documents, John Page, Mathews County, Middle Peninsula Chapter ASV, North End, Page Family, Plantation, Rosewell, Volunteers

March 23, 2012 By Fairfield Foundation

Community Outreach: the Archeological Society of Virginia and its Middle Peninsula Chapter

We’ve all heard the expression “You can’t take a step in Virginia without walking on an historic site!” We live in an amazingly historic area with wonderful resources, from the first permanent English settlement at Jamestown, to the restored and reconstructed town of Williamsburg, the grand plantations along Route 5, and the battlegrounds at Yorktown […]

Filed Under: Archaeology, Education, Events Tagged With: archaeology, Archeological Society of Virginia, ASV, Middle Peninsula Chapter ASV, sites

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