Timberneck House Renovation at Machicomoco State Park

The Fairfield Foundation is renovating the Timberneck House, circa 1800, as a place for learning, lodging, and exploring Virginia’s Middle Peninsula. The project includes exhibits on the history and perseverance of Virginia Indians, the history of Timberneck Farm, and local sites of interest in and near Gloucester County, while also creating lodging options for park visitors. Initial work is halting deterioration, replacing the roof, restoring windows, and repairing the foundation and damaged structural timbers, and later phases will restore and repurpose interior spaces while preserving historic features for exhibits, events, and rooms with modern amenities. Archaeological testing is revealing changes to the landscape over millennia, from its use by Virginia Indians to two centuries of ownership and farming by the Carleton family, and the work invites public participation in historic preservation and archaeology at Timberneck and the nearby Fairfield Archaeology Park.

Virginia · United States