Dig into history with AiP and Fairfield Foundation

Adventures in Preservation’s longest standing partnership is with the Fairfield Foundation of Gloucester, VA. They started archaeology work at the Fairfield Plantation manor house in 2000, but our partnership began in 2011 with preservation of the historic Edge Hill Texaco station, which became Fairfield’s headquarters. 

Beginning in 2013, AiP jammers joined Dave Brown and Thane Harpole, founders of the Fairfield Foundation, in archaeology and preservation work at the manor house. Dave and Thane are fantastic instructors and leaders and say they are most proud of the thousands of school kids and hundreds of interns, volunteers and workshop participants they have worked with to accrue 86,000 volunteer hours at the plantation.

A descendent of the Burwell family, historic owners of the plantation, willed Fairfield to the foundation, “confident that [they] could use history as a way to bring people together in the common pursuit of discovering who we are.”

AiP and Fairfield invite you to join us June 9-15, 2024, continuing archaeology and the search for information about the lives of all who labored at this site. Recently the Fairfield Foundation constructed a cover that stands over the manor house dig, so you’ll always be working in the shade!