By Danielle Browley So many great and interesting things are happening at Thomas Jefferson’s Poplar Forest. We’ve been finding so many things artifact and feature wise in the field. The […]

By: Ryan Hodges Field Work: As we continue to uncover more of the carriage turnaround we are revealing much more of the area where we may potentially be able to […]

By Emily Patton Smith Week 3 has seen an end to our relatively agreeable weather, as both heat and humidity—and an occasional afternoon thunderstorm—become more commonplace. However, our efforts are […]

by Samantha Fagone Week 2 of the Archaeology and Field school was full of new material as well as excitement for the upcoming field trip to Monticello that was to […]

By: Keisha Stoots On a sunny June morning, the 2014 Archaeology Field School students began our six week course at Poplar Forest. During this initial week, we focused on locating […]

My name is Amanda Phelps, and I am the archaeology lab intern for January 2014. I am a senior at Hartwick College in Oneonta, NY, with a major in Anthropology […]

By: Joshua Ritzman and Anne Poulos This week we continued working at Sites A and B, the potential location of a slave cabin and a stable. Remains of the building’s […]

By Sara Griggs and Ashley Pickard This week we field students opened Sites A and B; they are potential slave quarter sites with a possible sub-floor pit.

By: Kendell Porter and Andrea Zona Though Monday morning started off rainy, we were able to get out into the field every day this week. We were all very excited […]

By Marissa Sarver and Alex Covert On Monday the field school began working in the Archaeology lab due to rain. We learned how to clean artifacts and also how to […]

Week 1 By: Nathanael Kreimeyer and Helena Gray On Monday, the students of Poplar Forest Field School began the excavations searching for the precise location of Thomas Jefferson’s Vegetable Garden. […]

In August of 1822, Reverend S.A. Bumstead of Maryland was traveling in the Charlottesville area and happened to see Thomas Jefferson out for a ride. According to the Reverend: “He […]