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 […]

Why is our teapot spinning?!

Imagine that you have a small mountain of puzzle pieces in front of you of all shapes, sizes, and colors. You don’t know how many puzzles are represented by the […]

Two of the major questions archaeologists attempt to answer when cataloguing artifacts is the identity of the manufacturer and when an object was made. This can be very difficult or […]

Every artifact that is analyzed and catalogued as a part of the Wing Re-analysis project adds something to our knowledge about life at Poplar Forest through the ages.  The individual […]

To celebrate Halloween we present some spooky-looking glass artifacts from the Wing collection. These images aren’t from a mad scientist’s laboratory…just a regular laboratory. The glass photographed below are all […]

The Wing of Offices is also known interchangeably as the East Wing of Dependencies. This collection of outbuildings was an addition of the main house, and contained four separate rooms. […]

The fork is the youngest of the basic dining utensils and once considered a scandalous and indulgent item. The earliest forks were not used for delivering food to the mouth, […]