Today the Culpeper Star Exponent’s top story in their print version is Germanna’s 300th anniversary: Germanna marks 300th anniversary with celebration The Germanna Foundation’s 57th annual reunion and conference kicked off this week with a special celebration marking its 300th anniversary of when the German colonists first settled in America. In honor of the event, a […]
Did you ever wonder how the 1714 colonists were related?
Here’s a chart that shows the interrelatedness of the Germanna Colonists upon arrival, April 1714. Marriages reflecting the ancestry of the husband, wife or both. How to Use the Table: Find your ancestor and look along his or her row. Anyone with an H or W in a shared column is a cousin of yours through […]
New Tour Added on July 18: Marching Through Culpeper
This Friday, July 18, 2014, from 10 am to Noon, join Virginia Morton, author of Marching Through Culpeper, for her popular two-hour Civil War Walking Tour of historic downtown Culpeper. Walk in the footsteps of Lee, Grant, Custer, Pelham, Clara Barton and other notables. See below for more details. The walking is not strenuous and several […]
Help Create a Visual Historical Record of the Reunion
The Germanna Foundation has set up a Shutterfly photo sharing site for those coming to the reunion next week. We are encouraging everyone to take lots of photos throughout the reunion and conference and upload them to this site as a donation to the Germanna Foundation to share with those at the reunion as well […]
45th Anniversary of a Germanna Descendant on the Moon
The year 2014 not only marks the 300th anniversary of Germanna in America but July 20, 2014 marks the 45th anniversary of the first moon landing by Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin in 1969. Astronaut and Germanna descendant Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin is a direct descendant of the Rev. Henry Häger, the German […]
See if your ancestors fought in the Revolutionary War
Do something Revolutionary. Pass on the heritage of those who fought for the independence of our Nation and the freedoms we fight to keep. This Independence Day, think how you can shape the future through the life of a young American, like Maren Faith Snow of Clermont, Florida. Inspired by her Germanna Rector patriot ancestor, […]
Happy 300th Anniversary to our sister fort in Brunswick County!
In 1714, Governor Spotswood built TWO pentagonal forts to secure the frontiers of Virginia – Fort Christanna and Fort Germanna. Archaeologists at Fort Christanna have discovered all five corners of their pentagon, and have shown that each was 300 feet long. Since both forts were built at the direction of Governor Spotswood, it’s a safe […]
Research links Germanna CC employee to original Germanna settlement as 300th anniversary nears
Fredericksburg Free-Lance Star, June 20, 2014 Jean Rice found herself drawn to a strip of land off State Route 3, also known as Germanna Highway, in Orange County near the Rapidan River. Again and again she drove past the site of the original 18th century Germanna fort and settlement without knowing its history or realizing […]
D-Day and Germanna
Today, Americans think of the greatest beaches in the world: Omaha, Utah, Juno, Gold, and Sword. Seventy years ago today, Americans and their allies hit the beaches to liberate a continent from the evil of National Socialism. Thanks to the outpouring of Germanna Foundation supporters who asked that the name of their service man or […]
Order Stone Pavers for Memorial Garden
On Memorial Day 2014, Germanna family members were at the Germanna Foundation Memorial Garden to honor the day and those it commemorates. The President of the Germanna Foundation read a representative selection of names of members of the Armed Forces who risked their lives defending our freedom and are now remembered by the present generation, […]
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