Germanna Foundation Announces New President

Germanna Foundation Announces New President

November 13, 2020 By Germanna Leave a Comment

The Germanna Foundation is pleased to announce that as of November 7, 2020, Keith Hoffman will serve as the Foundation’s next president.

Keith succeeds Marc Wheat, who served as president since 2008.

Keith joined the Board of Trustees in 2012 and became Treasurer in 2013. His father was born in a community of Germanna descendants in western Ohio. Keith is related to many of the families in the first and second colonies.

Before retiring in 2013, Keith was a financial analyst for a government-sponsored enterprise where he measured investment performance and interest-rate risk for fixed income securities.

Keith is a Chartered Financial Analyst. He holds an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a BA in Mathematics from the University of Maryland. Keith lives with his wife, Laura, in Arlington, Virginia.

“The opportunity to lead the Germanna Foundation and build on the success is exciting, and I look forward to working with the board of trustees to build on these successes,” says Keith Hoffman.

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Germanna Foundation President Keith Hoffman

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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.

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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.