Wingapo (Welcome!) to Machicomoco! For as long as 18,000 years, Native American peoples have lived along Chesapeake’s waterways, and the land surrounding you reflects this deep history. Outside is the Pamunkey (York) River, part of a network of . . . — — Map (db m191902) HM
The Powhatan chiefdom was a powerful alliance of Native communities in eastern Virginia led by Wahunsenacawh (Chief Powhatan). The Powhatan region had a number of towns where chiefs lived, which the English referred to as Kings’ Houses. . . . — — Map (db m192049) HM
The Volontaires-étrangers de Lauzun
The Foreign Volunteers of Lauzun
Lauzun's Legion was created on March 5, 1780, expressly for him, and numbered around 600 men during the American Campaign. It was considered part of the French . . . — — Map (db m310614) HM
Near this spot was located the early burial ground of the Mann and Page families. Three marble tombs removed from the site in 1980 bore these inscriptions:
Here lyeth ye body of John Mann, gentleman of Gloucester County in Virginia aged 63 . . . — — Map (db m192179) HM
The Fairfield Manor House was constructed in at least two phases. Built entirely in Flemish bond, the first phase created a short. "T"-shaped structure comparable in size to other large mansions of the period, including Bacon's Castle, Virginia's . . . — — Map (db m270633) HM
Prior to the mid-19th-century the western facade of the Fairfield Manor House would have been structurally symmetrical to the rest of the house. Sometime around 1840 the west wing was removed and replaced with a gable that stood flush with the . . . — — Map (db m270763) HM
The cluster of trees in front of you now shades the remains of one of colonial Virginia's grandest residences. Fairfield was built in 1694 for Lewis Burwell ll on land patented in 1648 by his father, the immigrant Lewis Burwell I. Lewis II was a . . . — — Map (db m270622) HM
The north facade of the Fairfield Manor House incorporated features rarely used together on colonial homes. Built at thé end of Jacobean period of architecture and the beginning of the Georgian era, Fairfield employed elements of both periods, . . . — — Map (db m270704) HM
A vast amount of information has been found in this area concerning the evolution and layout of Fairfield Plantation. In the summer of 2001, archaeologists discovered an ash pit, clay borrow pit, and a fence line. The late 17th-century ash pit was a . . . — — Map (db m270646) HM
In Honor of French Soldiers
Who Fought on this Ground and
Died for the Independence of
The United States
Jacob Colin, Hussar killed in battle Oct. 3, 1781 • Pierre Didier, killed in battle Oct. 3, 1781 • Denis Jacob, Corporal, died of his . . . — — Map (db m265961) WM
In the 1500s, Wahunsenacawh (Chief Powhatan) inherited political authority over six Native communities in eastern Virginia. By 1607 when the English colonists settled Jamestown, Wahunsenacawh had created a chiefdom that encompassed the 32 . . . — — Map (db m191942) HM
Starting around 2,000 years ago, the population of Native peoples living along the waters of the Chesapeake Bay began to rise significantly and to more extensively shape their surrounding environment through clearing forests and constructing . . . — — Map (db m191986) HM
"We walked in the garden for about an hour; then we went to dinner and I ate boiled beef."
— William Byrd at Fairfield, May 4, 1709
Extending 82 feet to your right and left, and stretching perhaps 300 feet towards the creek is . . . — — Map (db m270770) HM
Patriarch John Page emigrated from England to Virginia in 1653. He quickly rose to prominence and through the headrights system and tobacco cultivation, accumulated vast wealth that sustained his growing family. He erected a substantial brick house . . . — — Map (db m297965) HM
From 1100 to 1650 Algonquian life revolved around towns located along rivers, including the Powhatan (James), Pamunkey (York), Rappahanock (same name), and Patawomeck (Potomac). Waterways served as transportation corridors, a source of food and . . . — — Map (db m192105) HM
The Powhatan world changed dramatically in the wake of European colonization. Virginia’s Native peoples have responded by innovating and enduring. Their memories of traditional customs and connections to ancestral places continue today.
The . . . — — Map (db m192182) HM
The War of Independence comes to Gloucester County
A large British force commanded by Lord Cornwallis marched from North Carolina and reached Virginia in May of 1781. After a summer of skirmishes with American forces under the . . . — — Map (db m302381) HM
These Page Family Tombs
were removed from the
cemetery at
"Rosewell" in 1969
A bequest made
in memory of
Margaret Doub Waddell
And a gift in memory
of
Gabriella Page
Made this work of
preservation possible.
The Joseph . . . — — Map (db m297956) HM
The Fairfield Foundation is renovating the Timberneck House (c. 1800) as a place for learning, lodging, and exploring Virginia’s Middle Peninsula. As a not-for-profit organization we are dedicated to promoting and involving the public in hands-on . . . — — Map (db m192503) HM
Thomas Calhoun Walker, community leader and advocate for African American education, led local efforts to secure support from the Julius Rosenwald Fund for the construction of six schools and one teacher's cottage in Gloucester County. Woodville . . . — — Map (db m265874) HM
