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Book Recommendation: Middlesex County by Larry S. Chowning

by Stephanie Heinatz | Apr 10, 2019 | Interesting History From Our Region, News and Reports

“Just 35 years after Jamestown was settled, Virginia colonists planted tobacco in nearby Middlesex County, an area strategically located between two major rivers and the Chesapeake Bay. Middlesex life has been closely tied to both land and water. From the...

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In Memory of Norton Hurd

https://youtu.be/x7OGYiPQVBA "Norton Warren Hurd, 104, founder of Hurd’s Hardware in Deltaville, passed away at home in Deltaville on Friday, Jan. 8, 2021. He was born on Sept....

Wicker Sleigh Gifted to Middlesex County Museum

In the early part of the 20th century the winters were much colder in Middlesex with lots of snowy times. It was traditional in my family, The Mercers of Syringa, to travel by...

Christmas Telegram to Oakenham

Oakenham was built in 1837 by Thomas Waring Fauntleroy, the wealthiest person in Middlesex per the 1860 census and still stands today near the high school. In the early 1960’s...

Winters at Woodstock

"Winter was a wondrous time growing up at Woodstock." "As children, we couldn't wait for the ice to form where water would collect in the corner of the soybean field, Along a...

Middlesex County Museum
& Historical Society

LOCATION:
777 General Puller Highway
Saluda, VA 23149

CONTACT:
✆ 804-758-3663
✉ middlesexmuseum@va.metrocast.net