by Whitney Law | Jul 27, 2022 | Collections, Collections & Displays, Military Heroes, Museum Updates
The Veterans’ area of the museum has had two new display cases added to its floorplan. Biographies of the service men and women have been compiled and will be included with various artifacts of their time serving our country. Uniforms, photography, medals, and records...
by Whitney Law | Jul 27, 2022 | Middlesex History, Nature & Environment, Waterway (Rivers & Creeks)
Middlesex County is blessed with a wonderful geographic location that has provided its inhabitants, since its founding, with important life amenities. Today as in 1670, the county has a land area of 132 square miles and 135 miles of shoreline. Throughout the...
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...