Germanna Foundation

Preserving the historic heritage of the original settlers of the Fort Germanna Colonies in Virginia

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Germanna Foundation Supports Rapidan River Clean-up

August 5, 2015 By Germanna

For the past few months, the Germanna Foundation facilitated the clean-up efforts of another area non-profit group called StreamSweepers.  StreamSweepers is a youth job corps program focusing on river restoration.  Each summer about a dozen area young adults are trained and paid a stipend to go out on our area rivers to perform ecological assessments and […]

Filed Under: Conservation, In the News, Siegen Forest Trails

Bald Eagles Nesting at Germanna along the Rapidan River

April 23, 2015 By Germanna

In celebration of all the new births this Spring, the Germanna Foundation is pleased to share this photo (taken by Germanna Foundation volunteer Dr. Myron Wasiuta, OD of Culpeper) of an adult bald eagle and eaglet nesting along the Rapidan River in Orange County, Virginia. As stated in the Virginia Department of Game and Inland […]

Filed Under: Conservation, Germanna Blog

Battlefield Preservation and Stewardship Workshop

October 3, 2014 By Germanna

I’m sharing this invitation to a Virginia Department of Historic Resources sponsored workshop being held in Petersburg, VA October 23-24 for a couple of reasons. First of all, as you may know, the Germanna Foundation preserves the ford on the Rapidan River that was used by troops during the Civil War Battle of the Wilderness. […]

Filed Under: Conservation, Events, Germanna Blog

Restoring Historic Salubria from Damage Wrought by the Mineral Earthquake

September 11, 2013 By Germanna Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Conservation, Salubria

Dedicatory Prayer for Siegen Forest

September 11, 2013 By Germanna Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Conservation, Siegen Forest Trails

Preserving Our Land

September 11, 2013 By Germanna Leave a Comment

By J. Marc Wheat The following prepared testimony was presented on April 15, 2011 before the Fauquier County Board of Supervisors in Warrenton, Virginia, under the agenda item “A Work Session Regarding Germantown with Marc Wheat, President, Germanna Foundation.” Thanks to the financial and volunteer support of the members of the Germanna Foundation, the Foundation […]

Filed Under: Articles, Conservation, Siegen Forest Trails

The Historic Gardens of Salubria

September 11, 2013 By Germanna Leave a Comment

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 […]

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“Destination Appeal” of Wilderness Battlefield, Germanna, Rapidan River focus of National Parks Service study

September 11, 2013 By Germanna Leave a Comment

The Wilderness Battlefield Gateway Study was commissioned to assess future opportunities to balance preservation and development along Germanna Highway from the Rapidan River to the Wilderness Battlefield in eastern Orange County, Virginia. The link to the 200 page+ study is at http://telegraph.civilwar.org/aboutus/news/Wilderness-Battlefield-Gateway-Study.pdf The following points summarize the findings of land analysis and planning with respect […]

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Salubria Preservation and Archaeology

September 11, 2013 By Germanna Leave a Comment

Crown Glass Salubria

The Germanna Foundation takes very seriously its stewardship of the historic property known as Salubria. Substantial efforts are being made to preserve, study, document and better understand the history of this architectural treasure. Germanna Trustee Kathy Ellis shares the following update: GLASS The Salubria Architecture Subcommittee in-service on March 13 was great fun, and I […]

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Germanna Foundation statement concerning Orange County Comprehensive Plan

September 11, 2013 By Germanna Leave a Comment

Statement of the Germanna Foundation Opposing Amendments to Orange County Comprehensive Plan The Germanna Foundation preserves what is best in the heritage of Orange County and works to transmit those values to the rising generations. The staff-initiated proposed amendments to the Comprehensive Plan short-change the future, and so we must ask the Orange County Planning […]

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Salubria standing strong

September 11, 2013 By Germanna Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Conservation, In the News, Salubria

Salubria Receives the Attention She Deserves: Two Days of Coverage in the Culpeper Star Exponent

September 11, 2013 By Germanna Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Conservation, In the News, Salubria

Prying into Salubria’s past

September 11, 2013 By Germanna Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Conservation, In the News, Salubria

Preserving History at Salubria: More than bricks and mortar

September 11, 2013 By Germanna Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Conservation, In the News, Salubria

Germanna’s Good Stewardship of Salubria is the top story in the Culpeper Star-Exponent

September 11, 2013 By Germanna Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Conservation, In the News, Salubria

Germanna Foundation’s Mission and Stewardship

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 complex which includes a Museum, Genealogy Library, the Hitt Archaeology Center, and the Germanna Memorial Garden
  • Siegen Forest 170-acre Hiking and Nature Trails
  • 1714/1717 Fort Germanna Archaeology Site
  • Lt. Gov. Alexander Spotswood’s home “Enchanted Castle” Archaeology Site
  • Historic 1757 Salubria Manor
  • Revolutionary War-era Peter Hitt Farm

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GERMANNA FOUNDATION
The Germanna Foundation
MAILING: P.O. Box 279
LOCATION: 2062 Germanna Highway
Locust Grove, VA 22508-0279
Phone: 540-423-1700
Fax: 540-423-1747
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Fort Germanna Visitor Center, Museum & Library

2062 Germanna Highway (Route 3)
Locust Grove, VA 22508
(Next to the Germanna Community College campus)
Open 1:00-5:00 pm Tuesday through Saturday
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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Behind the Fort Germanna Visitor Center is our 170-acre Siegen Forest nature and hiking trails along the Rapidan river.

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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.

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