Flight From Washington - 1814
It's fun to come across old newspapers and other items when going through old files. In this case, the date is not on the newspaper...
James Madison -- Why remember Madison?
Why remember Madison? Simplistically, we can say "Father of the Constitution," author of the Bill of Rights and his written political...
Scrap Book?
Acts and Joint Resolutions Passed By The General Assembly of Virginia, 1876-77. Published in Richmond in 1877 and bound by W. E. Simons &...
Payne Limner
Ann Spotswood Payne’s Portrait Returns to the Museum! (The conserved portrait will be unveiled at our September 17th Annual Meeting. The...
Home-Front
We are in the 100th and 75th anniversaries of World Wars I and II. In addition to the military exhibit pieces, we have included...
James Madison and Edward Tiffin
The James Madison Museum of Orange County Heritage is pleased to announce the donation of a land grant certificate, dated August 15,...
One spinning wheel the same as the others?
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...
Museum Musings - A Building Worth Saving?
A structure listing on the National Registry...should be a fairly simple "Yes! Save the building!" In reality, it's really not easy to...
Museum Musings - The Harvester Wars?
It is on record that Cirus McCormick did not come up with the actual idea of a grain reaper, rather he dramatically improved upon the...
Museum Musings - The Curtain Dress from "Gone with the Wind"
Everyone who has seen "Gone With the Wind" where Scarlett goes to meet Rhett to flirt her way into money to pay taxes on Tara, wearing a...
