Dr. Eric Larsen, Director of Archaeology for the Germanna Foundation, discusses the old mill complex and race within Siegen Forest and shows you the different areas where this mill once operated. The Germanna Foundation’s 170-acre Siegen Forest contains four hiking and nature trails along the Rapidan river. For more information, go to: https://germanna.org/things-to-do/hike-siegen-forest/ —- The […]
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 […]
Dedicatory Prayer for Siegen Forest
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 […]
Germanna Ford Public Boat Launch
FaQ: Germanna Ford History: Once called the Rapid Anne in homage to England’s Queen Anne, the Rapidan River connects the Blue Ridge Mountains with the Chesapeake Bay. It’s the same waterway that flowed through and sustained the lives of Indigenous peoples for thousands of years, as well as German and English immigrants and enslaved Africans. […]
