September 9th & 10th, 9am to 5pmHistoric Court House Greenwww.mathewsmarketdays.org Don’t miss this year’s Mathews Market Days Festival in Mathews County THIS weekend! This annual festival overtakes the Historic Court House drawing thousands of festival go-ers to Mathews over the weekend. There will be vendors selling arts and crafts, food trucks featuring yummy classics like crab cakes, frozen lemonade, funnel […]
Mathews wins Best of the Bay 2022 Awards!
Chesapeake Bay Magazine awards Mathews County with several 2022 “Best of the Bay” Awards. Find out about the awards below and a few of the reasons to make Mathews a destination for your next weekend getaway! Mathews Ties with Yorktown “Most Charming Chesapeake Town” Contrasting towns tie for top honors for “Most Charming Chesapeake Town” on either […]
Witness the Historic Preservation of New Point Comfort Lighthouse
You may notice that New Point Comfort Lighthouse looks a bit different if you are visiting by water or car at the Observation Deck at New Point Comfort Natural Area Preserve this year. First Steps Scaffolding has gone up and will be there for the indefinite future along with rubber matting to secure any fallen […]
Movie “Harriet” Filmed in Mathews County!
“Harriet” filmed in Mathews County! A biopic, coming soon, made its way to William’s Wharf and Mathews Land Conservancy to shoot a scene for the upcoming feature film, “Harriet,” telling the story of heroic abolitionist, Harriet Tubman. On October 30th and 31st, around 350 cast, film crew, and extras set up camp down William’s Wharf Road […]
Mathews Main Street
Downtown Mathews, sometimes referred to as the Village but more often called the Court House by locals, is in the middle of a long-awaited face lift. Although our downtown is quaint enough without any additional assistance, even those of us who love her the most couldn’t help but notice signs of advanced age, including […]
May Faire 2017
With the cold of winter safely behind us, Mathews County welcomes the beauty and splendor of spring with a nod to its past by celebrating May Faire on Saturday, May 6, 2017, from 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on the historic Court Green in the center of town. Sponsored by the Mathews County Historical […]
