And Then What Happened? John Fontaine Part III Further Insights Into John Fontaine and The First Germanna Colonyⓒ By Craig M. Kilby May 2009 Part I | Part II Part III And Then What Happened? Having brought John Fontaine’s story this far, it would not be fair to ignore the rest of it. Unless otherwise […]
John Fontaine and The First Germanna Colony, Part II
Did Someone Say Miners? Golden Horseshoes? John Fontaine Part II By Craig Kilby May 2009 Part I Part II Fontaine’s Two Trips to Germanna Before we resume with John Fontaine’s journal and his first trip to Germanna, a brief background of the site itself is necessary for those readers not necessarily well versed in its […]
John Fontaine and The First Germanna Colony, Part I
Further Insights Into John Fontaine and The First Germanna Colony, Part Iⓒ By Craig M. Kilby May 2009 Part II | Part III In 1853, Miss Ann Maury (1803-1876)1 [2] wrote Memoirs of a Huguenot Family which included a much abridged version of John Fontaine’s journal, which she had transcribed from the original. It was […]
18th Century Germanna Emigration Records Discovered in Germany; Fills Gap in Colonial Virginia History
Germanna Foundation Trustee and Secretary Barbara Gregory Fishback tells how 300-year-old documents important to colonial Virginia researchers were discovered in Germany by Germanna Foundation researchers: “In preparation for the 2011 Germanna Foundation Trip to Germany, [Germanna Foundation First Vice President ] Dr. Katharine Brown and I made plans to conduct research at the Stadtarchiv Siegen, […]
Mother’s Day: A Celebration rooted in a Germanna mother’s life
by Dr. Katharine L. Brown 1st Vice President and Trustee, Germanna Foundation The mother in whose honor Mother’s Day was established was a Germanna descendant born and raised in Culpeper, Virginia. Anna Jarvis, the founder of Mother’s Day, devoted years to gaining national recognition for a day to honor mothers, as a fulfillment of an […]
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