History
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Holiday Open House – Tompkins Cottage Museum
Tompkins Cottage Brickbat Road, Mathews, VA, United StatesStep back to the 19th century! The Tompkins Cottage Museum, 43 Brickbat Rd., will be open to celebrate the Christmas season with period decorations and holiday shopping. Author and historian […]
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Civil War Lecture: Harriet Tubman
Kingston Parish Hall 370 Main Street, Mathews, VA, United StatesPresented by Laurie King Assistant Conservator, USS Monitor Project Harriet Tubman is most commonly known for her actions as a conductor in the Underground Railroad, repeatedly crossing into slave territory […]
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Speaker Meeting
Mathews Maritime Museum 482 Main Street, Mathews, VA, United StatesCarol and John McCormack present their Road Scholar Trip to the WWII D-Day beaches in France, including a painting made during the D-Day landing, and some original D-Day landing charts stamped “TOP […]
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Mathews Maritime Event Speaker Meeting
Mathews Maritime Museum 482 Main Street, Mathews, VA, United StatesThe Mathews Maritime Foundation speaker series presents Dr. Wesley Wilson telling the story of African American waterman, and the Pamunkey and Mattaponi tribes, involvement in the transportation of wounded Union […]
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Tompkins Cottage Museum Open
Tompkins Cottage Brickbat Road, Mathews, VA, United StatesThe cottage is one of the oldest frame structures in the courthouse area. It contains changing exhibits and a collection of objects reflecting a typical home of the 1800s. The […]
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Lighthouse Keepers Honored in Mathews
Gwynn's Island Museum State Rte 633, Gwynn, VA, United StatesLighthouse Keepers to be Honored, April 13 in Mathews County The memory of six lighthouse keepers will be kept alive in public ceremonies by members of the Chesapeake Chapter, United States Lighthouse Society and U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary. Everyone interested is invited to the graveside ceremonies to be held on April 13. Betty Collins, Board […]
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Mathews Maritime Museum Open
Mathews Maritime Museum 482 Main Street, Mathews, VA, United StatesThe Mathews Maritime Museum will be open every Friday and Saturday 10am to 2pm until September!
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Gloucester House and Garden Tour – Historic Garden Week in Virginia
Abingdon Episcopal Church 4645 George Washington Memorial Hwy, Hayes, VA, United StatesGloucester County's rich history dates from just after the settlement at Jamestown in 1607 and its role during the American Revolution was pivotal. The southern tip of the county’s peninsula […]
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Gwynn’s Island Museum Open
Gwynn's Island Museum State Rte 633, Gwynn, VA, United StatesVisit the Gwynn's Island Museum Saturdays and Sundays 1pm-5pm
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Mathews Historic Church Tour
Westville Christian Church 261 Main St., Mathews, VA, United StatesSix churches -- Antioch Baptist, Grace-Providence UMC, Gwynn's Island Baptist, Macedonia Baptist, Westville Baptist & Westville Christian -- in Mathews County will be open for the Mathews County Historical Society’s Historic Church Tour. The event showcases the architecture, history and culture of Mathews County through one of its richest and historical resources—our churches. Tickets will be […]
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Author William Geroux presenting “The Ghost Ships of Archangel”
Kingston Episcopal Parish House 370 Main Street , Mathews Courthouse, VA, United StatesWilliam Geroux, author of Mathews Men, will be at the Kingston Parish promoting his new book, The Ghost Ships of Archangel. The Ghost Ships of Archangel will be published May 14 by Viking /Penguin. It’s a narrative non-fiction account of an Allied convoy in 1942 sailing across the Arctic, trying to get through the ice and the […]
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Black History is American History
Mathews Memorial Library 251 Main Street, Mathews, VA, United StatesOpen House Exhibits | Crafts | Games | Refreshements
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