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Water Archaeology
White Marsh, VA
The Fairfield Foundation has promoted and involved the public in hands-on archaeology, preservation, and education activities within Virginia’s Middle Peninsula and surrounding areas since 2000. This non-profit operates five properties in Gloucester County: Fairfield Archaeology Park, Timberneck House at Machicomoco, Edge Hill Texaco (the C.A.P.E.), Rosewell Ruins and Visitor Center, and the Walter Reed birthplace.
For Riverlore, Fairfield will be bringing artifacts from excavations at one of their five sites, which the public will be able to help wash. Washing the dirt from the artifacts is one step closer to cataloging them, which helps to understand the past.
For more information about and historical resources on the Middle Peninsula or to arrange presentations on a variety of topics related to local history and archaeology, please contact staff at (804) 815-4467 and fairfield@fairfieldfoundation.org.