A nationally important collection of artifacts from British Virginia has, after decades of absence, landed back in the environs from which they were excavated: Orange County.
Many of the remains of what was the colony of Virginiaâs largest and most impressive structureâbigger than the Governorâs Palace in Williamsburgâhave returned to the vicinity of Germanna, royal governor Alexander Spotswoodâs pioneering settlement on the Rapidan River.
Earlier this month, the private, nonprofit Germanna Foundation became the new steward of a state-managed collection of more than 100,000 artifacts painstakingly dug about 30 years ago from the site of Spotswoodâs house, near todayâs Locust Grove Campus of Germanna Community College.