The Germanna Foundation will be hosting an information table at the family-oriented Taste of the Mountains in Madison, Virginia on Saturday, September 4, 2010.

The Memorial Foundation of the Germanna Colonies in Virginia, Inc. (a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization) was chartered in 1956 to preserve the heritage of the earliest organized settlements of Germans in colonial Virginia beginning at Fort Germanna in 1714 under the auspices of Virginia's colonial Lt. Governor Alexander Spotswood.   Many of the families who were settled at Germanna in the colonial period had a dramatic impact as the first settlers in what is now Madison County before the American Revolution:  AYLOR, BACH, BLANKENBAKER, BROMBACH, CLORE, CRIGLER, CRIM, DEER, FISCHBACH, HEIMBACH, HITT, HOFFMANN, HOLT, HOLTZCLAW, JUNG, KEMPER, KOCH, KOONTZ, HOLT, MARTIN, MOYER, NAY, OTTERBACH, RECTOR, SPILMAN, TANNER, THOMAS, UTZ, WAYLAND, WEAVER, WILHOIT, YAGER, and YOWELL.

In recentl years, the Germanna Foundation has published three books on families who settled in what is now Madison County in colonial times.

The Germanna Foundation owns and manages the colonial manor house “Salubria” in Culpeper County and 179 acres of the historic Germanna settlement adjacent to the Locust Grove campus of the Germanna Community College in Orange County, built on land given by the Germanna Foundation to the people of the Commonwealth of Virginia for that purpose in 1969. The Germanna Foundation sponsors its own Germanna Boy Scout Troop 199 of the Stonewall Jackson Area Council to transmit our ethic of stewardship and leadership to the next generation.

 The Germanna Foundation's Brawdus Martin Germanna Visitor Center is located at 2062 Germanna Highway (Route 3), Locust Grove, VA 22508 next to the Germanna Community College Locust Grove Campus.  Telephone: (540) 423-1700.