150th Legacy Digitizing Program
A 2 day event - The Library of Virginia will be at the John Barton Payne Building Warrenton, Va. to help preserve your family documents. See below for more information.
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Southern Fauquier Historical Society, Inc. Our Mission
Southern Fauquier Historical Society, Inc. is a group of everyday people that joined together for the purpose of documentation, preservation, and education of future generations on the history, culture and growth of Fauquier County and the surrounding areas. Our interest are not limited to one period time, culture or interest. Our purpose is to promote the belief that a community’s history is an integrated fabric of both physical and social elements embracing all social, cultural and ethnic groups woven together through a series of events. The factual presentation of these events without censorship or revisionism is critical to preserving our heritage.
To this purpose we strive to preserve artifacts and develop a document repository for education; continue through public awareness, the documentation, survey, and preservation of existing historical resources; conduct on going educational and workshop programs related to the history of Fauquier County in schools and in other public gatherings; and provide a venue for researchers and genealogist to both research and share their findings with other lay and professional historians.
We hope you will join us.
Wanted - Items for our
"Fauquier History Chest!"
One of our new programs needs help getting started. SFHS is developing a "Fauquier History Chest." We are looking for items that would have been used, or found, in Fauquier County during any earlier period up to the 1960's . These items will be used to spark questions in both children and adults minds about our past. We have a few donations but the chest is not full yet!!!!
How the Program works.
The chest will be availbe on loan to the schools, and other groups for events to learn about things from the past. Buttons, bulletes, maybe a dress, doillie, corn shucker, doll, tools, butter press, or any other item you think is interesting and can donate is needed. (Please nothing of great value, reproductions are OK for this).
Also, please provide a written discription of the item and what you know about it's use. (This may be hand written, we will create a catalogue)
The companion catalogue will be prepared to accompany the chest, so anyone can open the chest, look at an item, and then read about it either to a group, or in the classroom.
Teachers and other event coordiantors, can sign up to borrow the chest for a specific date. Prior to loaning the chest out the items will be inventoried with the responsibilie party to make sure everything is there. - and - Upon return of the chest, the items are again inventoried against the master list to make sure we get everything back in place for the next user.
A great way to provide others with a resource of our history. To Donate
Bring your item to any meeting to be placed in the chest or give us a call.
Hope you can donate an item. For more information or you can't make the meeting ,but have an item to share call Lory P. @ 540-439-3303 to make arrangments. Help us fill the Chest!
| Regular Meetings
Meetings every third Tuesday of the Month 7:30 PM - September through May.
Zoar Baptist Church Educational Building, Bristersburg, Virginia ; View map January - April 2012 Meetings held at The Bealeton Library Depot, 10877 Willow Drive North, Bealeton, VA 22712-9399 For more information on meeting topics and membership contact us at: SFHSINC@gmail.com
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SFHS, INC
9842 Routts Hill Rd.
Warrenton, VA. 20186
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The Annul Membership Dues are Due. $20.00 per Member or $30.00 per houshold Effective January 1/ and due by March 15th of each year to sustain membership. Please pay at the February meeting to help us avoid postage.
Whats new ! The Board voted to create two new positions and we need volunteers: 1. Program Director - To work with members and the community to find and arrange for presenters for our 9 speaker meetings each year, and help edit the annual flyer. 2. Oral History Archivist and Coordinator - To work with members to collect catalog and store, the digital and tape media of the Society, and to arrange and coordinate the oral history. To volunteer email your interest to SFHSINC@GMAIL.com
New Kid on the Block The SFHS, Board is please to announce that we as an out growth of our cemetery preservation program an independent Foundation for the preservation of Family Cemeteries in Fauquier County has been formed. The Fauquier Family Cemetery Foundation, Inc, is established to provide a resource to the land owners and descendants of family cemeteries to have a reliable overseer in the community monitoring and in some cases doing light maintenance of the independent cemeteries on private property through the county. The fledgling Foundation is working on documents, e-mails, websites, and links will be added soon. For more information contact: Lory Payne @ 540-439-3303. February 21, 2012 - 7:30 PM SFHS Regular Meeting at Bealeton Library. It is "Out of the Attic Night". Bring your favorite artifact and share with the society. Also we will be collecting for the "Fauquier History Chest" March 16, 2012 - 7:30 PM SFHS Regular Meeting at Bealeton Library Speaker: Ed Wenger of the 1st VA Continental Army, will be bringing us a short history of the 1st VA, with most of the presentation focused on the individual soldier of the Continental Army, (demographics, education, skill level, etc.) and the uniform and equipment used by them. March 23 and 24, 2012.- 10 AM to 8 PM .. A 2 day event - The Library of Virginia 150th Legacy Digitizing Program John Barton Payne Building Warrenton Va. Back by request Southern Fauquier Historical Society is sponsoring a 2nd Digitizing event to preserve history of Fauquier County and Virginia. Register now for your personal time slot to bring in you treasured documents relating to the war years, or Reconstruction period. Contact Lory Payne for more details or set your appointment. 540-439-3303. April 20, 2012 - 7:30 PM SFHS Regular Meeting at Bealeton Library Speaker: Ray Gill — Founding Families of Fauquier County and their part in the War of 1812. April 22, 2012 - 2 PM Warrenton Cemetery. Join us for the Re-dedication of Gen. L. L. Lomax, head stone. Sponsored by the Sons of Confederate Veterans, Black Horse Camp #780. Period attire welcome and encouraged, but not required. Visit www.blackhorsecamp780.com for more information May 18, 2012 - 7:30 PM SFHS Regular Meeting at Zoar Baptist Church. Speaker: Hank Neimier will be sharing with us his experiences and tips on tracing your roots in Fauquier and Prince William County.
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