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May 2023
Memorial Day Weekend Exhibit
The Mathews Historical Museum will team with the Retired Officers of Mathews County Association (ROMCA) to present a memorabilia display over the Memorial Day Weekend! The display will be open to the public at no charge. It will consist of a wide variety of unique and personalized items reflecting ROMCA members’ military service during the past 75 years. There will be a ROMCA member present for all the sessions to answer questions, and also to provide information concerning ROMCA. The museum, will…
Find out more »June 2023
Movie Night at the Museum
Join the Mathews Historical Museum for a Friday Movie Night! The Museum cordially invites you to a showing of “TAKING FLIGHT,” stories of early Virginia aviation from 1864 to 1940. Doors open at 6:30 PM Movie at 7 PM This no-cost event is open to the public, at no cost.
Find out more »July 2023
Movie Night at the Museum
Local Gloucester resident, Mary Bush Shipko, aviatrix and a violinist in the Courthouse Community Orchestra, is guest speaker at Mathews Historical Museum Movie Night, Friday, July 14. Shipko’s remarks will precede a showing of Part II of a movie detailing Virginia’s role in aviation history. “Taking Flight—Stories of Modern Virginia Aviation, 1941 to Present Day,” Part II, is produced by Dave Miller of Miller Productions of Virginia. Miller is a prize winning independent film maker who is now focusing his efforts on Virginia stories and…
Find out more »August 2023
Movie Night: Horatio’s Drive
Join the Mathews Historical Museum for a free, family-friendly movie night! The Museum is screening the movie "Horatio's Drive." In the spring of 1903, on a whim and a $50 bet, Dr. Horatio Nelson Jackson set off from San Francisco in a 20-horsepower touring car hoping to become the first person to cross the US in a "horseless carriage!" Doors open at 6:30 PM, movie begins at 7 PM.
Find out more »October 2023
4th Mathews USLHS Grave Marker Event
SIX LIGHTHOUSE KEEPERS TO BE HONORED On Saturday, October 7, volunteers with the nonprofit organization, U.S. Lighthouse Society and its Chesapeake Chapter, will honor six Chesapeake Bay lighthouse keepers in special ceremonies at three cemeteries in Mathews County. During the ceremonies, each keeper will be honored with the unveiling of a United States Lighthouse Service grave marker. The chapter will conduct the first 30-minute long tribute to William Edward Davis at H.C. Smither Cemetery in Hudgins at 9:30 a.m. The…
Find out more »Afternoon Tea & Fashion Show
Join the Mathews Historical Museum for an Afternoon Tea & Fashion Show, featuring the "Underside of History," with 17th, 18th and 19th century garments! Tickets are $12 in advance, and $15 at the door- more information on how to purchase tickets is available at the Visitor Center & Doodlebugs.
Find out more »The Haunting of the Hudgins House
Join the Mathews Memorial Library for "The Haunting of the HUDGINS HOUSE... an Ever-Evolving Tale" with Benn Trask. This free event is open to the public, and refreshments will be served! The Hudgins House tale began in the fall of 1882 when lighthouse officials in Baltimore granted Assistant Keeper Augustine F. Hudgins of the Wolf Trap station a leave of absence to tend to an unusual family matter. The issue reportedly was a malicious spirit that was tormenting the lighthouse…
Find out more »November 2023
Tompkins Cottage Museum Holiday Open House
Join the Mathews County Historical Society at the Tompkins Cottage Museum’s Christmas Open House! This will be held on Saturday, November 18th as part of the Holiday Farmers Market. Stop by for a tour and do some holiday shopping for the history buff in your family!
Find out more »December 2023
Tompkins Cottage Museum Christmas Open House
Join the Mathews County Historical Society at the Tompkins Cottage Museum's Christmas Open House! This will be held on Saturday, December 9th as part of the Mathews Christmas Farmers Market. Stop by for a tour and do some holiday shopping for the history buff in your family!
Find out more »February 2024
History of Williams Wharf Landing: Tales & Artifacts from the Wharf
Join the Mathews Land Conservancy for the next of their Lecture Series, featuring Pamela Muffelman. Pamela, a Mathews local, will discuss the Wharf's history of shipbuilding, tobacco exports, customs house, and more! The event is free to attend.
Find out more »Black History Month Celebration
Join the Mathews County NAACP for a Black History Month Celebration! Guest speakers, including S.A. Cosby, Allison Thomas, Maria Montgomery Giddens, and Elise Williams, will discuss the history of the Black community of Gwynn's Island, the Black Exodus from Gwynn's Island, and "The Mathews I Call Home," with music provided by the Emmaus Male Chorus.
Find out more »March 2024
Movie Night at the Museum: “State Fair”
Movie Night at the Museum, Friday, March 8, will open with a brief historical slide presentation of the nearly 40 years of County Fairs that were held in Mathews beginning in 1901, and lasting up to the early 1940s. That presentation will be followed by the movie, “State Fair,” an American musical film which tells the story of a brother and sister who go to a state fair in Dallas and find good clean fun and romance. The film sets…
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