Friends of Fort Loudoun Winchester VA

07/17/2025

Looking into the idea of having a series of Shovel Test Pits run around the sides of the Baker-Hardy house.

07/16/2025

M3 and Eric examining the Mystery Rock and soil layers

07/16/2025

The French and Indian War Foundation, the caretakers of the fort site are actively looking into removing the well cover slab and creating a exhibit there. As always were are looking for community members to get involved as a volunteer or serve on a committee.

07/05/2025

Today a detachment of George Mercer Company, Virginia Regiment troops will be at the George Washington Office Museum from 11 am till 2 pm.

Stop by and learn abt. the troops at Fort Loudoun during the French & Indian War. The museum is at 32 West Cork St Wi******er Va 22601 in downtown.

We look forward to seeing you Today. Please support the " Friends of Fort Loudoun Wi******er VA " by following our FB page.

George Mercer Company is the official guard of Fort Loudoun.

07/04/2025

Check out this Presentation I put together a few years ago on the French & I War on the French & Indian War Foundation YouTube channel.

Our mission is to Preserve & Interpret the Colonial History of the Virginia Frontier.

07/04/2025

It was a busy morning at the fort site yesterday as Mark Ludlow & Mike Kehoe of M3 Archaeology supported by Donna Leight & Eric Robinson of the French and Indian War Foundation conducted a metal detecting sweep of the North side of the Baker- Hardy house. It turned out to be a fruitful adventure. The artifacts located included: civil war minie ball with major damage, 1800's coin, 1700's glass shard along with an assortment of pottery n nails. The French and Indian War Foundation would like to extend its heartfelt thanks to Mark & Mike at M3 for all the efforts that they have make in supporting the fort site.

06/23/2025

A few weeks back M3 Archaeology, LLC, headed by Mark Michael Ludlow, Registered Professional Archaeologist, and Mike Kehoe, Archaeologist and Historian and their large crew of volunteers did a comprehensive metal detecting sweep of the fort site. Numerous interesting items were found, their locations GPSed, documented and bagged. We look forward to that report and adding those artifacts to our growing collection. Thanks so much to these volunteers for giving up their time to help preserve history for our community. I believe the last time this was done on such a large scale was back in 2002. Numerous big bushes had been removed from the yard since then.

06/16/2025

The French & Indian Foundation BOD is discussing the future of the well at the site.