Date: August 24, 1990
Time: 12:00 AM
Location: Fredericksburg, Virginia
Third Strother Conference
The Third National Strother Conference was held in Fredericksburg, Virginia, and the host hotel was the Sheraton-Fredericksburg Resort & Conference Center. Attendance was 170. The program included:
- James "Jay" Harrison III, Archaeologist for the Millbank Survey and Dig, gave an interesting talk complete with artifacts that were discovered at Millbank. He also conducted tours to the dig areas on Saturday.
- A day-long bus tour on Saturday began with a stop at St. John’s Episcopal Church where we had communion from the Silver Communion Service used in the Old Strother Church.
- Next was a tour of Millbank, then a stop at Albion, the former house of Anthony Strother, where we walked through the original part of the house where Anthony and his family lived.
- Robert Siegrist, Director of Restoration of George Washington's Boyhood Home, Ferry Farm, conducted a guided tour to show what had been accomplished thus far.
- At the banquet, Dr Otho Campbell, Professor of History, Mary Washington College, spoke about “The Virginia Colony in the 18th Century: Its Growing and Maturing.”