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  • Movie Night at the Museum: Happy Homes & Fertile Farms

    Mathews Museum 200 Main Street, Mathews, VA, United States

    Join the Mathews Historical Museum for a free Movie Night at the Museum! This month, enjoy a 25th anniversary showing of a 1999 film “Mathews County: Happy Homes and Fertile Farms on Smiling Waters” by the late Eugene C. Hudgins of Mathews. Mr. Hudgins created this 111-minute historical overview of Mathews County, and in his […]

  • What Is It?

    Mathews Museum 200 Main Street, Mathews, VA, United States

    Bring your ceramics, arrowheads, pottery, and other artifacts, to the Mathews Historical Museum to have them identified. This annual event is co-hosted by the Mathews Historical Museum and the Fairfield Foundation. There is no charge for this event. On site will be a special guest, antiquities authority William (Bill) Pitman, formerly Curator of Archaeological Collections […]

  • Afternoon Tea & Fashion Show

    Mathews Museum 200 Main Street, Mathews, VA, United States

    Join the Mathews Historical Museum for an afternoon of tea and fashion! In conjunction with the VA250 American Revolution activities in Mathews, the Mathews Museum will host Martha Washington and Abigail Adams as they “spill the tea.” Enjoy unlimited amounts of hot tea served with cream and sweeteners, accompanied by numerous types of savories and […]

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  • CANCELED: Lighthouse Keepers of Mathews County: Presentation by Benn Trask

    Mathews Memorial Library 251 Main Street, Mathews, VA, United States

    *THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED* Benn Trask, noted historian, educator, Marine Corps veteran, librarian and museum curator, is the author of numerous books, including academic works on the Virginia Civil War regimental histories series. Most recently, he has written “Lighthouses of Hampton Roads: A History,” on the eleven light stations of Southeastern Virginia. Free and […]

  • Forgotten Black Patriots, Loyalists, and Women

    Mathews Memorial Library 251 Main Street, Mathews, VA, United States

    Discover the mostly forgotten history of free and enslaved African Americans during the American Revolution. Learn about the events in 1775 that led Virginia Governor Dunmore to issue a proclamation freeing enslaved people owned by patriots in exchange for joining the British troops. Why did enslaved people risk their lives for freedom in places like […]

  • Antique Southern Quilts Collection Showcase

    Mathews Museum 200 Main Street, Mathews, VA, United States

    A special quilting exhibit, “Threads of Our History: Quilts of Mathews Virginia,”  will debut at the Mathews Museum, October 5 and will be on exhibit  through the end of December. These quilts are from a private collection of an old Mathews family, going back over a century.   Mathews is a small, rural southern county sitting on the Chesapeake Bay. […]

  • Discussion on Quilt Exhibit

    Mathews Museum 200 Main Street, Mathews, VA, United States

    JOIN WITH FRIENDS OF THE MUSEUM for A  DISCUSSION on the NEW QUILT EXHIBIT  The public is invited to hear local historian and genealogist, Lori Jackson Black, detail her journey in discovering, researching and telling the stories about the extensive quilt collection which she and her husband, Jay, are proud and privileged to share.  The […]

  • Program by Colonial Williamsburg Textile Curator

    Mathews Museum 200 Main Street, Mathews, VA, United States

    Curator of Textiles and Historic at Dress Colonial Williamsburg Foundation to Speak Neal Hurst, Curator of Textiles and Historic Dress at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation will be guest speaker. "I produce the highest quality 17th - 19th Century men's clothing. I provide clothing to not only re-enactors but to museums and living history sites,“ says Hurst, "and I […]

  • Fall General Membership Meeting

    Mathews Memorial Library 251 Main Street, Mathews, VA, United States

    Join the Friends of the Mathews Memorial Library for a Fall General Membership Meeting. There will be a presentation by Pam Muffleman on the History of Williams Wharf. There is a hybrid option available at tinyurl.com/2s3nc6nv.

  • Lighthouse Keepers of Mathews County

    Mathews Memorial Library 251 Main Street, Mathews, VA, United States

    Mathews County Historical Society, in partnership with the Mathews Memorial Library, will host a lecture by historian Benjamin H. Trask on “Lighthouse Keepers of Mathews County” on Thursday, November 14, 2024, at 7:00 p.m. at the library on Main Street in Mathews. Chesapeake Bay lighthouse keepers, for almost two centuries, maintained the beacons that guided […]

  • Tompkins Cottage Museum Thanksgiving Open House

    Tompkins Cottage Brickbat Road, Mathews, VA, United States

    Tompkins Cottage Museum Thanksgiving Open House will be held from 10:00 a.m. until 1:00 p.m.  as part of the Mathews Thanksgiving Farmers Market. Traditional fall decorations will be featured throughout. The 2024 Mathews County Historical Society ornament the Linda Carol will be featured. Other Mathews County Historical Society ornaments, Sally Tompkins dolls and publications will […]

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