New Trail Kiosk Installed for Germanna’s Siegen Forest

New Trail Kiosk Installed for Germanna’s Siegen Forest

May 22, 2020 By Germanna Leave a Comment

Updated with video.

We have exciting news! During our Giving Tuesday campaign in December we wanted to raise funds for a new kiosk for our trails and thanks to you, our wonderful donors, we were able to raise those funds. Last week, the kiosk arrived, this past week holes were dug and on Thursday the kiosk was completely installed!

Special thanks to our donors, to Timberhomes Vermont for creating such a wonderful kiosk, to Tim and Eric for doing the unloading, digging and grunt work, and to Tim and Ben Corner who volunteered their time to help us install it. We now have brochures outside for all our hikers to Siegen Forest and we will soon have more information placed on the kiosk.

Do not miss our 5 Minutes with Germanna on May 28th on our Facebook page when Membership Development Manager Ashley Abruzzo discusses the work behind getting the kiosk to Germanna, as well as an update on how popular our trails in the Siegen Forest has been in the last two months.

Tim Sutphin and Eric Larsen unload the kiosk.

Tim and Eric prepare to create a four foot hole with an auger.

Tim and Eric, along with volunteers Tim and Ben Corner, lift the roof onto the kiosk.

The completed kiosk.

Eric, Tim, and Tim and Ben Corner with the installed kiosk.

A Hiker recently created a video about his walk through the trails at Germanna’s Siegen Forest. For more information about the trails (which are FREE and OPEN), see our Siegen Forest page.

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The Germanna Foundation tells America’s story of liberty through the frontier experience of her settlers and descendants using archaeological, historical, and genealogical research and interpretation. We are stewards over these important properties:

Fort Germanna Visitor Center campus which includes a Museum, Genealogy Library, the Hitt Archaeology Center, and the Germanna Memorial Garden
Siegen Forest – 170-acre Hiking and Nature Trails along the Rapidan river
1714/1717 Fort Germanna Archaeology Site
Virginia Lt. Gov. Alexander Spotswood’s home “Enchanted Castle” Archaeology Site
1757 Georgian-style Salubria Manor
1800 Peter Hitt Farm

2062 Germanna Highway (Route 3)
Locust Grove, VA 22508
(Next to the Germanna Community College campus)

Hours of Operation:
Monday-Friday, 10:00 am to 4:00 pm
CLOSED Saturday and Sunday

Advanced reservations are required to use the library. Research time limited to 2 hours.

Masks are required in the Visitor Center at all times. Please maintain 6 feet distance. Limit of 4 people in the library; 5 people in the museum.

Out of town visitors are urged to call us at 540-423-1700 to confirm or to make special arrangements for groups. Please note that Salubria remains CLOSED.

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The Germanna Foundation is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization dedicated to exploring the Colonial Virginia frontier via the historic 1714 Fort Germanna and its German colonists and their descendants.

It conducts archaeological exploration and conservation, genealogical research and publishing, and historic preservation and interpretation.

The Foundation owns and maintains several historic sites and properties, such as Salubria Manor, that were part of or closely connected to the Germanna colonies, the town of Germanna, and the other early colonial Virginia settlements and towns in the Piedmont area of Virginia.