by Whitney Law | Jun 28, 2022 | Archaeology, Artifacts and Items, Collections & Displays, Culture/Life, Middlesex History, Museum Updates, Native American History, Paleontology/Fossils
Middlesex Early Inhabitants has opened in the visitor center and showcases fossils and Native American artifacts found in the local waters and soils of Virginia. Learn about Middlesex’s two indigenous tribes John Smith recorded in his journals and on his famous map...
by Whitney Law | Jun 28, 2022 | Collections, Collections & Displays, Middlesex History, Museum Updates, News and Reports
Our museum’s floorplan is being rearranged with display cases moved and objects rotated into storage. In so doing, new items have been brought out of object storage and put on display to create new and unique exhibits. This has been an ongoing project for the past six...
by Whitney Law | Jun 28, 2022 | Churches, Culture/Life, Middlesex History, Museum Updates, News and Reports
On Thursday, June 16, the Virginia Department of Historic Resources approved a historical highway marker for Antioch Baptist Church in Saluda. Located in the recently designated Saluda Historic District, Antioch Baptist Church was established in 1866 and is the oldest...
by Whitney Law | Jun 28, 2022 | Museum Updates, News and Reports
The Advisory Board of the River Counties Community Foundation has awarded a grant to Middlesex County Museum and Historical Society in the amount of $15,000.00. Lincoln Boykin,Director of the River Counties Community Foundation, notified the museum at the end of May....
