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Colors of Shark Teeth: The Simple Answer
The color of a shark tooth, or any other fossil, is determined by the type of sediment the fossil is preserved in. The color has almost nothing to do with the age or type of fossil. To elaborate, let's take a basic look at the fossilization process for shark teeth:...
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Recent Accessions: Waterview Packing Company Photo Archive
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Exhibits’ Update Continues
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...
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Shorelines of Middlesex
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...
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New Exhibit Is Open
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...
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Museum Continues Update of Exhibits
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...
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Highway Marker to Recognize Antioch Baptist Church
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...
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Museum is Awarded Grant
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....
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Rededication of Puller Park Event Location Update
In order to accommodate various out of town guests, the Middlesex County Museum & HistoricalSociety and the Middle Peninsula Detachment 1317 Marine Corps League has moved the re-dedicationof Puller Park away from the museum and Puller Park site. It will now take place...
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New Summer Hours
Starting Friday, May 27, 2022, the Middlesex County Museum will be expanding our open hours. We will now be open: Wednesday - 1 to 5pm Friday - 1 to 5pm Sunday - 1 to...
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