Written by Germanna Foundation President J. Marc Wheat: It is a moving experience in an American’s life to travel to a special place and say with pride and gratitude, “this is where our family became American.” For over half a century, descendants of the explorers and colonists who became American at Germanna have found their […]
300th Germanna Jubilee Planning Party
Volunteer to help plan and implement the Germanna Foundation 300th Jubliee Conference & Reunion. Meet people from all over the United States who are helping plan! Saturday, October 5, 2013 9:00 am Germanna Foundation Visitor Center 2062 Germanna Highway Locust Grove, VA RSVP MAP: View Larger MapDriving Directions
Book Review: The Rogue Republic: How Would-Be Patriots Waged the Shortest Revolution in American History
Reviewed by Barbara Kemper If you’ve ever sewn a crazy quilt from a bag of scraps, you can appreciate what William C. Davis has done to write the book, The Rogue Republic: How Would-Be Patriots Waged the Shortest Revolution in American History. First, you have to find sound material to use. Then, discard any thin […]
VFH Grant to Germanna
Spring 2012 Germanna Foundation Newsletter The Germanna Foundation is the grateful recipient a grant from the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities for a long-term interpretive exhibit for the Brawdus Martin Germanna Visitor Center. This grant provides $3,000 towards the costs of fabricating and installing the exhibit in 2012. A previous grant from VFH of $10,000 made […]
Angus McDonald Green
Angus McDonald Green, a key figure in Piedmont publishing circles, community leader, and World War II veteran who served under Patton died in March 2012. One of seven children in a publishing family, Green learned the printing business from childhood with his siblings and absorbed a love of history at his family home Greenwood, where […]
Restoring Historic Salubria from Damage Wrought by the Mineral Earthquake
By Doug Harnsberger Spring 2012 Germanna Newsletter At 1:51 pm on August 23, 2011, the terra firma beneath Salubria rumbled and heaved the stately 1757 Georgian-style house. By the time the quaking action had subsided, the 5.8 magnitude Mineral Earthquake had ruptured and twisted both of the twenty foot high chimney stacks twenty degrees, and […]
Dedicatory Prayer for Siegen Forest
As a member of the Germanna Foundation, I hope that you hold in honor the stewardship we have been entrusted in caring for Siegen Forest, the 179-acre remnant of the original settlement, now covered in hardwoods which provides a valuable riparian buffer to the Rapidan River. As I testified before the Fauquier County Board of […]
Germanna Ford Public Boat Launch
FaQ: Germanna Ford History: Once called the Rapid Anne in homage to England’s Queen Anne, the Rapidan River connects the Blue Ridge Mountains with the Chesapeake Bay. It’s the same waterway that flowed through and sustained the lives of Indigenous peoples for thousands of years, as well as German and English immigrants and enslaved Africans. […]
The Historic Gardens of Salubria
Under the Garden Club of Virginia’s 2010 William D. Rieley Fellowship, scholar of landscape architecture, Sonia Brenner (UVA MLA 2010), spent 3 months researching the garden and landscape at Salubria. The following is a summary of her fascinating report, SALUBRIA: AN INTERPRETATION OF ITS GARDEN AND LANDSCAPE HERITAGE, which can be read in its entirety […]
Fritz Bottenberg, 1935-2011
Fritz Bottenberg August 8, 1935 – January 30, 2011 The Germanna community was saddened by news of the death of Fritz Bottenberg, a Rector descendant from Trupbach and strong friend of the Germanna Foundation, after a long battle with cancer. He was buried in the nearby village of Seelbach. Each June since 2003, when the […]
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