Neither the man, the manor, nor the garden has survived three centuries and multiple fires. It is no wonder that few in present-day Gloucester County have heard of Lewis Burwell II or his manor house or his formal garden. But evidence of their existence more than 300 years ago is continually uncovered by the trowels of Fairfield Foundation archaeologists at Fairfield Archaeology Park, just south of Hickory Fork Road on Carter’s Creek.Fairfield Plantation in Gloucester, the ancestral home of the Burwell family in Virginia, was made possible by the accumulated wealth available to the second-generation Burwell. The first Lewis Burwell was born in Ampthill, Bedfordshire, England, and his son was the beneficiary of his father’s quick and shrewd accumulation of economic, political, and social standing in colonial Virginia. In addition, the second Lewis Burwell married a wealthy heiress.Archaeologists have uncovered the foundation of his unusual Jacobean-Georgian manor. Its style is remembere...