Lucy Gray Artwork

One of the Museum’s most beautiful treasures, a silk on silk needlework done by Lucy Gray in the 1840’s, has been taken out of storage and put on display in the Museum’s Catesby & Lila Maddox Ware Research Room.  Due to the fragile nature of this...

New Exhibit

The Museum unveiled a new exhibit on Wednesday, Remarkable Women in Essex History! March is National Women’s History Month, and the Museum has chosen ten extraordinary women from Essex County and the Middle Peninsula to honor in the exhibit.  According to David...

Museum Hires New Director

Mr. Wright Andrews, president of the Essex County Museum & Historical Society, announces, “We are delighted to have Tim Manley join us as our first full-time Executive Director. He has the skills and love of history that we need to continue and expand the...
Museum Re-Opens for Summer

Museum Re-Opens for Summer

Ceiling repairs have been completed and we are back in business! The Museum will be open this summer on Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays from 10 am to 3 pm and hope that you will stop in to say hello and check out the new merchandise in our Rappahannock Gift...
Essex Resolutions Reading July 9th

Essex Resolutions Reading July 9th

Join us this Saturday at 9:30am for the annual “reading of the Essex Resolutions” which commemorates the Essex County Patriots, who in 1774, acted to protect their rights from British infringements and was a precursor to the American...
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