{"id":266579,"date":"2025-04-09T15:03:31","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T19:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/?p=266579"},"modified":"2025-04-09T15:03:31","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T19:03:31","slug":"umw-students-professor-route-efforts-toward-new-stafford-county-african-american-heritage-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/2025\/04\/09\/umw-students-professor-route-efforts-toward-new-stafford-county-african-american-heritage-map\/","title":{"rendered":"UMW Students, Professor Route Efforts Toward New Stafford County African American Heritage Map"},"content":{"rendered":"<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><div id=\"attachment_266580\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/Screenshot-2025-04-08-at-2.14.54%E2%80%AFPM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-266580\" class=\"wp-image-266580 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/Screenshot-2025-04-08-at-2.14.54%E2%80%AFPM-300x169.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/Screenshot-2025-04-08-at-2.14.54&#8239;PM-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/Screenshot-2025-04-08-at-2.14.54&#8239;PM.png 726w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\"><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-266580\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Professor of Geography Steve Hanna spoke at the unveiling of the Stafford African American Heritage Trail at a recent ceremony at Stafford Hospital.<\/p><\/div><p>When University of Mary Washington junior Ethan Sweeny began a summer internship working alongside Professor of Geography Steve Hanna, he knew he&rsquo;d signed up for something special.<\/p><p>&ldquo;I immediately knew it was something I was going to really enjoy doing,&rdquo; said Sweeny, a geospatial analysis major who worked with Hanna last summer and throughout the fall to help create the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/discoverstafford.org\/museum\/saaht\/\">Stafford African American Heritage Trail<\/a>. &ldquo;Using what I&rsquo;ve learned in class in a real-world project was really rewarding, but I think the most rewarding thing I took from it was being able to help tell these amazing stories that might have been lost.&rdquo;<\/p><p>The trail, a 23-stop driving tour, highlights the strength and resilience of African American people in Stafford County throughout the past 300 years. Officially unveiled during a recent ceremony at Stafford Hospital, it also showcases the connection between UMW and the local community, and the power of professors to include students in research and other important endeavors.<\/p><p>&ldquo;This is exactly what so many of my colleagues at Mary Washington strive to do,&rdquo; Hanna said at the unveiling event, where he and Sweeny, who&rsquo;s also pursuing a certificate in GIS, learned they&rsquo;d been named in a House Resolution by the Virginia General Assembly in praise of the project. &ldquo;We involve our students in projects with community partners to create works of consequence, projects that make a difference in this region and across the globe.&rdquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/2025\/04\/04\/umw-students-professor-route-efforts-toward-new-stafford-county-african-american-heritage-map\/\">Read more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When University of Mary Washington junior Ethan Sweeny began a summer internship working alongside Professor of Geography Steve Hanna, he knew he&rsquo;d signed up for something special.&ldquo;I immediately knew it was something I was going to really enjoy doing,&rdquo; said Sweeny, a geospatial analysis major who worked with Hanna last summer and throughout the fall [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28477,"featured_media":266581,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[817],"class_list":["post-266579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-whats-new-umw","tag-shanna","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28477"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}