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Summer
2008 Newsletter (a PDF file)
- Fall Tour of Historic Homes - those we will visit on
Sept 27th
- Message from the Company governor
- Report on the presentation
"Written
in Bone: Forensic Files of the 17th
Century Chesapeake"
- Article by St.
Julien R. Marshall, Jr., past Company Governor
2007 - Nov 30, 2007 Dinner/Meeting - slideshow
2007 - Sept 29 Bus Tour - Charles City & New
Kent County, Virginia 2007 - June 12th dinner
meeting at George Mason University
Click here for pictures
Program:
Our Representative Government and its Roots in
Jamestowne,
presented by GMU's Department of Political Science
Faculty
2007 - May 12 - Members who attended
400 Anniversary Celebration
March 31st Bus Trip to
Jamestown & Williamsburg
2006 Winter Meeting --
click here for pictures
The annual meeting of the Company included a black-tie
cocktail hour and dinner, held at the beautiful old
DACOR-Bacon House, at 1801 F Street
NW, in Washington, DC on Saturday, December 2. What a gracious beginning of the holiday
season! We were very fortunate to have as our speaker Ernest B. "Pat" Furgurson. Everyone who loves Virginia is indebted to Mr. Furgurson for
his excellent article, "Braggin Rights" in the November 2006 issue of
Washingtonian magazine. 2006 Annual Fall Tour of
Historic Sites:
On Monday, 9 October 2006, our fifteenth annual bus
trip took us into the beautiful and historic area around Leesburg.
(Pictures are not yet available.) On the way our company governor, Ravenel
told us the history of Loudon, Fauquier, and Prince William Counties, and traced
the movement of the English settlers from Eastern Virginia -- and the Germans
from Pennsylvania -- into this area. We visited:
- Riverside Farm, which
includes the land on the Potomac river where a ferry was operated by
Revolutionary War hero Josias Clapham
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- Buckland Farm, which was part of the Fairfax Proprietary and conveyed to
Robert "King" Carter.
- Oatlands, the estate built by George Carter, great-grandson of Robert Carter. This house
sits on 261 acres, now owned by the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
- Early land records show that the property was once owned by George William Fairfax,
son of Colonel Sir William Fairfax, an early companion of George Washington and his associate as
a surveyor.
2006 Spring Luncheon for Members & Prospective Members:
Our Company's Spring luncheon & brief meeting was held
on Sunday, 21 May 2006, at the Country
Club of Fairfax, in Fairfax, Virginia.
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2005 Fall Meeting & Dinner:
The
Fall meeting was held at the Army Navy Country Club in Arlington, Virginia, on
17 Nov. 2005.
Click for details.
2005
Annual Fall Tour of Historic Sites:
On Saturday, 24 September 2005, we visited the five sites
listed below, in Hanover and Goochland counties -- not far from Richmond, Virginia.
Click for details.
- Scotchtown, early home of Patrick Henry
- Historic Hanover Tavern
- Hanover Court House Historic District
- Tuckahoe -- Thomas Jefferson's childhood home, now privately owned
- Janeway -- a private home built in 1868 and occupied continuously be descendants
of the original founding family.
2005 Spring Meeting:
Our Spring meeting was held on 23 April 2005 in the form of a
two-hour midday luncheon cruise on the Potomac River, attended by over 50 members
and guests. Our private, chartered yacht took us down river as far as the Wilson
Bridge and up as far as the 14th street bridge -- on a beautiful spring day. |
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