Our Affiliate's History

The Greater Fredericksburg Habitat for Humanity was chartered by Habitat for Humanity International, Inc. on July 5, 1995 by a group of concerned citizens seeing a need for adequate low cost housing for residents of the City of Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania and Stafford counties. After being officially chartered we started searching for families in need of adequate housing, funds to build homes, and building sites. Our first family was selected in August of 1996; a building site located in the Mayfield subdivision; construction began in November and was completed in April of 1997. Our second house on Camptown Road in Spotsylvania County was completed in November of 1997. The third house on Chewning Lane was a "Blitz Build" during Habitat's "Building on Faith Week" in September of 1997. In 1998 we purchased and subdivided a lot on Airport Avenue in the city. We finished construction of the fifth house on that property in 2005. In 2003 the Free Lance Star newspaper offered Habitat a 1920's two story house on their parking lot and a building lot across the street. We had the house raised up and moved on a Sunday morning in April. This was our first attempt at refurbishing a house. After several roadblocks the home was dedicated in November of 2004. During the summer of 2006 we built our first two-story house and it was designated our "Youth Build" house in honor of five Stafford highschoolers that lost their lives in 2004.

Our affiliate's office started in the music library of the Falmouth Baptist Church, moved to the Baptist Association, then to a building in the Bowman Industrial Park. We leased our Houser Drive location (next to Comcast Cable in Spotsylvania) in 2000, due to the need for more space and a more accessible location to hold meetings. In 2001 we started receiving donations of building materials and home furnishings for resale. Our store operated on one Saturday a month holding a "Yard Sale." In 2004 we started opening the ReSale store during the week and hired a full-time manager to run the store and make pickups of donated items. The store has been such a success that we have now found a larger building to house all the items we have for sale. 

In December of 2006 we moved our operations (office and ReSale Store) from our House Drive location to our new facility at 4755 Jefferson Davis Highway, which is in the Four Mile Fork Business Center - next to J&J Tile.