The Germanna Foundation is pleased to announce that the Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) will conduct a field school hosted by the Germanna Foundation at its Fort Germanna and Enchanted Castle archaeological site in Locust Grove. VCU students (and others who apply and enroll through the University) will learn excavation techniques and help the Foundation’s archaeologist […]
Germanna Archaeologist Dr. Eric Larsen to Speak at German-American Heritage Museum
Please join Museum and Germanna Foundation members, friends, and others for an interesting lecture concerning the history and archaeology of Germanna on Thursday, March 17th, at 6:30pm at the German-American Heritage Museum in Washington, DC. This lecture series is sponsored in part by Germanna Trustee Sven Eric Utsch, and Dr. Larsen’s position is underwritten by a […]
German Script Course Available
The Moravian Archives, Bethlehem, PA, is accepting applications for an intensive course at Moravian College on learning to read German script. Now in its 46th year and the longest-running course of its kind in the country, the course will run from June 1 through June 14, and is being taught by Dr. Paul Peucker, Lanie Yaswinski, […]
Fort Germanna featured in D.C. museum exhibit
The Fort Germanna story is one of rich history, not just for Orange County, but nationally. Built in 1714, Germanna was the first German settlement in Virginia, making it a fitting exhibit at the German-American Heritage Museum’s “German Entrepreneurship” series on view in Washington, D.C. through March. (Story published in the Orange County Review by […]
Unearthing Germanna’s History
Orange County Review staff writer Amber Galaviz visited Germanna just before the holidays. Here’s link to her front page article in the Orange County Review.
Charting our Pathway to Discovery
Germanna staff archaeologist Dr. Eric Larsen began a new site topographic mapping survey project at Fort Germanna in October. The original site grid was established some 30 years ago and focused on the architectural footprint of Alexander Spotswood’s Enchanted Castle. Today, thanks to the generosity of Dr. Michael D. Frost and his wife Ginger, who […]
Germanna Foundation Supports Rapidan River Clean-up
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 […]
Germanna Archaeology Site in the News
Many of our 2015 reunion attendees had the opportunity to visit the Fort Germanna/ Enchanted Castle archaeological site during an open house with staff archaeologist Dr. Eric Larsen and special guest Dr. Bernard Means from Virginia Commonwealth University’s Virtual Curation Lab. Orange County Review reporter Amber Galaviz covered the event. Read her “Digging Germanna” article […]
Groundbreaking at Ferry Farm
On April 25, 2015, Germanna Foundation Trustee Dr. Michael Frost was an honored groundbreaker for the George Washington Foundation’s first phase of construction for the Washington House at Ferry Farm, George Washington’s boyhood home overlooking Fredericksburg, Virginia. (Michael is the second from the right in the photograph). The Ferry Farm venture’s first phase will build […]
German ARD Video: 300 Jahre Siegerlander in Virginia
German media attended last year’s reunion and conference and produced a video. You can watch it at this link. 300 Jahre Siegerländer in Virginia: Aktuelle Stunde vom 30.08.2014 Die ersten Deutschen, die in den USA siedelten, kamen aus dem Siegerland. 1714 holte der damalige Gouverneur von Virginia einige hundert Siegener und Wittgensteiner nach Amerika und […]