Salubria in Spring: Our First Salubria Public Access Day of 2023!

March 23, 2023 By Germanna Foundation Leave a Comment

Join us on Saturday, April 1st from 10:30 am to 2:00 pm as the Germanna Foundation hosts a Public Access Day event at historic Salubria Manor, located in Stevensburg, Virginia.

Salubria was built circa 1757 by the Reverend John Thompson for his wife, Butler Brayne Spotswood Thompson (widow of Lt. Governor Alexander Spotswood) and is the oldest brick structure in Culpeper County. Germanna has been stewards of the property since 2000.

Salubria is located at 19173 Salubria Lane (off Route 3; if you are traveling west towards Culpeper, it will be on your left). Visitors can stop anytime between the scheduled hours. For more information, contact us at 540-423-1700. Visit our Events page to see other Salubria open house days.

To sign up for a private tour of Salubria, call us at 540-423-1700.

This is a donate-what-you-can-event with a suggested donation of $10. To register for this event, click here.

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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 and initiatives:

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
Publishing “The Germanna Record” genealogy/ history books
Maintaining a genealogy database with over 130,000 records of descendants of the Germanna colonists

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.