The Fort Germanna/Enchanted Castle archaeological site has been nominated for inclusion on the World Monuments Fund 2016 Watch List. The Watch List, published every two years, calls international attention to cultural heritage sites around the globe that are at risk from the forces of nature or the impact of social, political, and economic change, and […]
Orange supervisors approve Germanna museum proposal
(Free Lance-Star)The Germanna Memorial Foundation will be allowed to construct and operate a library and museum next to its present visitors’ center on State Route 3 in eastern Orange County. Following a public hearing Tuesday with no speakers, supervisors approved a special use permit for a 40-by-85 foot, two-story building. The proposed site is on […]
County planners endorse Germanna Foundation museum, library
The Orange County Planning Commission is supporting a plan to build a museum and library behind the Germanna Memorial Foundation’s existing visitors center on State Route 3. The commissioners voted 4–0 Thursday to recommend that the Board of Supervisors approve a special-use permit to allow the building on agriculturally zoned land. Commissioner Jason Capelle was […]
Germanna Foundation recognized for preservation of Salubria
(Culpeper Star-Exponent) The Germanna Foundation’s ongoing efforts to preserve the historic mansion Salubria in Culpeper County was recognized Saturday morning with the dedication of a bronze plaque atop a brick historic marker by the House of Burgesses Chapter of the Colonial Dames XVII Century. “(The) House of Burgesses Chapter honors the Germanna Foundation for the preservation […]
Germanna colony celebrates 300th anniversary
From the Orange County Review: Three centuries ago, 42 people—men, women and children from nine family units —left their homes in the Siegerland area of southern Germany in hopes of making a fresh start in the frontier wilds of what is now Orange County. J. Marc Wheat, president of the Memorial Foundation of the Germanna […]
Germanna settlement recalled, 300 years later
(Fredericksburg Free-Lance Star, July 20, 2014) Three hundred years after the Germanna colonists arrived in Virginia, their descendents gathered Sunday to worship at the church the early settlers attended after expanding westward. The gathering took place at Little Fork Episcopal Church, the Rixeyville-area sanctuary with the brick exterior, blue box pews and thick white-washed […]
Germanna’s 300th anniversary is top story in local newspaper
Today the Culpeper Star Exponent’s top story in their print version is Germanna’s 300th anniversary: Germanna marks 300th anniversary with celebration The Germanna Foundation’s 57th annual reunion and conference kicked off this week with a special celebration marking its 300th anniversary of when the German colonists first settled in America. In honor of the event, a […]
Happy 300th Anniversary to our sister fort in Brunswick County!
In 1714, Governor Spotswood built TWO pentagonal forts to secure the frontiers of Virginia – Fort Christanna and Fort Germanna. Archaeologists at Fort Christanna have discovered all five corners of their pentagon, and have shown that each was 300 feet long. Since both forts were built at the direction of Governor Spotswood, it’s a safe […]
Research links Germanna CC employee to original Germanna settlement as 300th anniversary nears
Fredericksburg Free-Lance Star, June 20, 2014 Jean Rice found herself drawn to a strip of land off State Route 3, also known as Germanna Highway, in Orange County near the Rapidan River. Again and again she drove past the site of the original 18th century Germanna fort and settlement without knowing its history or realizing […]
Mystery tombstone returned to Germanna
Orange County-Review, March 28, 2014 By Kerry Sipe A six-month-old infant who died before the American Revolution has been the subject of a multi-state mystery involving a tombstone found 250 miles from the grave it was intended to mark. The lost tombstone will soon be returned to its proper place after an official of the […]
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