James Madison Museum of Orange County Heritage

In the 1740s, Colonial America was in the midst of a religious "Great Awakening". The passion of the Puritan growth of the early-to-mid...

This portrait was the last painted of James Madison during his lifetime. James Barton Longacre visited Madison at Montpelier in July of...

Please, protect your special treasures properly. It is sad when you see the damage that is done by moisture when something is saved in a...

(All images are the 1924 Model T donated by Tex Webb.) With regard to the color of the Model T's (1919 - 1925), Henry Ford is quoted for...

Anyone who had watched Disney's "Snow White and the Seven Dwarves" remembers the wicked Queen, obsessed with her beauty, uttered those...

Technically, the Jim Crow Period was from 1867-1877. It was a time when federal laws provided protection of civil rights for former...

We've very recently received a donation from Robbie Colvin of the original phone switchboard of the President Madison Inn (James Madison...

I will admit straight out that my knowledge of inventor and businessman Thomas Alva Edison is weak, limited. For myself, the donation of...

The Museum has several Bibles in our Collection, even a mid-1700's Book of Common Prayer. When colonists arrived on America's shores,...

"My word is my bond." A handshake sealed a deal. These were codes of honor of men from our past which pretty well died out after the...