Amazing! We are delighted to report that the Germanna Foundation is featured in its SECOND front-page story this week, in the Sunday edition of the Culpeper Star Exponent. Special thanks to Germanna Foundation members Doug Harnsberger (1717 Germanna Harnsberger descendant), Kathy Ellis (1717 Germanna Crigler descendant), Russell Hitt (1714 Germanna Hitt descendant), and Michael Frost […]
Salubria Receives the Attention She Deserves: Two Days of Coverage in the Culpeper Star Exponent
Culpeper Star Exponent [Front page, top of the fold, large photograph of Salubria] By Rhonda Simmons Published: July 15, 2010 Exactly how old is the oldest brick house in Culpeper County? We’ll have to wait until Saturday night to find out. Thanks to a new study, the community will soon learn more about the origins […]
Pvt Fielding Aylor, 4th VA Cavalry (CSA) Honored in Culpeper Star-Exponent
Zann Nelson, the former executive director of the Museum of Culpeper History, dedicated her June 23, 2011 Culpeper Star-Exponent column in tribute to Private Fielding Aylor. Her column follows. “On May 1, 1862, just eight days after his 18th birthday, young Fielding Aylor, a descendant of the first round of settlers to the Hebron Valley of […]
Prying into Salubria’s past
By MICHAEL ZITZ The Free Lance-Star, Fredericksburg, VA July 18, 2010 12:35 am Tree rings might seem to be exciting only to termites. But last night, they had Germanna Colonies descendents atwitter over the prospect that their ancestors may have had dealings with Daniel Boone and Thomas Jefferson and that Salubria may have influenced the […]
Preserving History at Salubria: More than bricks and mortar
By: By Zann Nelson, Culpeper Star-Exponent Published: October 20, 2011 It was more than bricks and mortar; there was something mystical about Saturday’s event at Salubria. Saturday, Oct. 15, Salubria, built by John Thompson, was the location of the quintessential “community working together” as preservation tradesmen, homeowners, and preservationists gathered at the house constructed in […]
Member of German Parliament Visits Germanna
Moving visit for German official BY CLINT SCHEMMER, Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star, 2011 An Old World lawmaker says he’s intrigued by bits of the past he saw in the New World during a visit to Orange County this weekend. Volkmar Klein, a member of the German parliament, explored the area that emigrants from his district settled […]
James E. Martin (1923-2011), Germanna Trustee Emeritus
James E. Martin, 88, of Bryson City, North Carolina, died December 11, 2011. He was born January 17, 1923 in Stevensburg, Virginia to the late Edgar Payne and Agnes Siebert Martin. In addition to his parents he was preceded in death by a sister, Thelma M. Hawkins and a nephew, Kenneth Brown. He was a […]
Germanna’s Good Stewardship of Salubria is the top story in the Culpeper Star-Exponent
By: Steven Butler Published: Sunday, October 16, 2011, page 1, top story Culpeper Star-Exponent The Germanna Foundation in conjunction with several sponsors hosted a historic masonry restoration symposium Saturday at Salubria Manor. The symposium focused on the most suitable restoration techniques to repair damage to the historic masonry of Salubria, which was built in the […]
Germanna Foundation’s Annual Weekend Mixes Virginia Wine With A Little History
By HEIDI BAUMSTARK VIRGINIA WINE GAZETTE 2011 “The past is not the property of historians; it is a public possession. It sustains the whole society, which always needs the identity that only the past can give,” notes Dr. Walter Havighurst. And learning about one’s past—and the sense of identity that it brings—is one of the […]
Germanna Foundation Trustee Emeritus John Pearce Honored by the University of Mary Washington
(Courtesy of the Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star) John N. Pearce was awarded emeritus status at the University of Mary Washington’s undergraduate commencement ceremony on Saturday, May 7, 2011. He was named Director of the James Monroe Museum and Memorial Library, Director of the James Monroe Presidential Center, and University Liaison for the Enchanted Castle Site Emeritus. Pearce […]