The Harold B Gill Foundation

With a mission of preserving, protecting, and promulgating the legacy of the late Harold B. Gill, Jr., the LLC and future 501c3 non-profit organization takes flight

Earlier today, I began the process of establishing the legal entity, “The Harold B Gill Foundation” as a Limited Liability Corporation through Zenbusiness.com. This organization will do its best to “preserve, protect, and promulgate” the scholarly and creative outputs of my late father, Harold B. Gill, Jr.

Dad’s enthusiasm was one of his hallmarks. He loved to share the knowledge that he had gleaned from long, solitary hours at the microfilm reader in the Research Department, then housed in the old Doctor’s home, a legacy of the first location of Eastern State Hospital, and the Travis House which had been returned to its original foundations when I was a very young child, a memory still with me to this day.

Here in the upstairs office on the west end of the Travis House, my father started and guided “The York County Project” which included drawing maps to establish the properties boundaries as they were in the 18th century.

The project was one of the first to make use of computer-aided statistical analysis and the results continue to inform the interpretations of 17th and 18th century Colonial Virginia.

In the week just prior to his death at the age of 91, he was contacted by a publisher who wanted to re-publish his 1973 history reader on Colonial Virginia. It was a great pleasure to be able to help realize that re-issuing of a work he did when I was just 10.

An original copy of “Colonial Virginia”

Much more will be being published as time allows but, for now, the Foundation to carry on his work and further efforts is established.