Sweet Briar College
Museum
Sweet Briar, VA 24595
{P} 434.381.6246
{E} museum@sbc.edu
The Sweet Briar Promise outlines our distinctive approach for providing meaningful, enduring education for women. It includes:
Tusculum was the 18th-century childhood home of Sweet Briar founder Indiana Fletcher Williams' mother, Maria Crawford. Until 2006, the timber-framed, wood-sided house stood a few miles north of the College in Amherst County. Slated for demolition to make way for new development, it was instead carefully dismantled, inventoried and stored for later restoration on Sweet Briar's campus.
The rebuilt house will become the physical headquarters of the Tusculum Institute. Established in 2008, the institute is a resource center dedicated to preserving and studying the region's historic assets within a context of environmental stewardship.
For more information, please visit the Tusculum Institute's Web site.
