James Madison Museum of Orange County Heritage

Please note that the while this topic is sensitive, and the performance of blackface is unthinkable today, it is being presented in this...

Prior to working at this museum, I had a vague idea of the different fabrics created from natural materials such as cotton. However,...

That is the line that caught my eye when I was scanning a file on an antebellum slave-made [gaming] table. This assessment came from his...

We are fortunate to have three chairs on exhibit that were used by presidents. Two Campeche chairs and one Federal side chair. The two...

Acts and Joint Resolutions Passed By The General Assembly of Virginia, 1876-77. Published in Richmond in 1877 and bound by W. E. Simons &...

Ann Spotswood Payne’s Portrait Returns to the Museum! (The conserved portrait will be unveiled at our September 17th Annual Meeting. The...

We are in the 100th and 75th anniversaries of World Wars I and II. In addition to the military exhibit pieces, we have included...

The James Madison Museum of Orange County Heritage is pleased to announce the donation of a land grant certificate, dated August 15,...

Historians have not been able to pinpoint the who, when and where, so…once upon a time, sometime between 500 and 1,000 A. D., somewhere...

The use of snuff was very popular in Spain and by the mid-to-late 1700s, snuff production was a Spanish Royal monopoly. Thus, the roots...