Historic Shepherdstown

Walking Tour of Shepherdstown
Take a walk through history with our self-guided walking tour.
Why were pigs banned from roaming freely in Shepherdstown?
Find out the answer and view other documents related to our town’s history here!
See this beautiful quilt
and other crafts made by local artisans at the Museum
Host your Gathering at the Historic Entler
The Entler and its lovely garden are a favorite spot for weddings, parties and other events. Historic Shepherdstown & Museum is a Colonial landmark, built in 1786.

Historic Shepherdstown Museum is pleased to announce the opening of a new exhibit: Educational Opportunities for Black Jefferson County Residents Before and After Brown v Board of Education. The new permanent exhibit opened the weekend of May 14-15. The Museum is open Saturdays from noon to 4 p.m. and Sundays from 1 to 3 p.m. The new exhibit is housed in the same room as Busy Sundays, which examines leisure and church activities of Shepherdstown’s African American community. The new exhibit received funding from the West Virginia Humanities Council. #WVHumanities We invite you to visit the Museum to see the new exhibit and all of our other Shepherdstown-related items.

2022 Speakers Series

Our annual Speaker Series presentations begin in April and continue in May, September and October. All of the presentations will be held on Wednesdays at 7 p.m., and they are free and open to the public.

The Speaker Series will be held in the auditorium at Shepherd University’s Byrd Center for Congressional History and Education. Announcements about Zoom availability will be made closer to each talk.

Please note that some dates have changed.

Living Libraries: Using Oral History to Preserve the Past
9/7
Dr. Keith Alexander, associate professor of history at Shepherd University. Dr. Alexander’s students conducted the oral interviews that are the basis for a new exhibit “African American Educational Opportunities in Jefferson County, WV, Before and After Brown v. Board of Education, 1954” which will open at Historic Shepherdstown Museum in mid-May.

The annual meeting for Historic Shepherdstown Commission will precede Dr. Alexander’s talk.
Looking at the History and Future of the Shepherdstown Riverfront
11/16
Historic Shepherdstown Commission will host a public forum. This event will be a panel presentation and community discussion.

Latest News

A Shepherdstown resident writes to Martha Washington, 1799

The Museum recently came across a letter that was written to Martha Washington, expressing condolences on the death of her husband, President George Washington. The letter was written on December 26, 1799, from “Shepherdstown on the Potomac.” The author of the letter was Mary Stead Pinckney. Mary and her husband, General Charles Coatesworth Pinckney, earlier […]

Shepherdstown Then and Now

Day Book of Henry Bedinger

May 22, 2021

March 22, 2016

John George Weis Family

March 9, 2016

John Francis Hamtramck

March 7, 2016

The Rumsey Steamboat Museum

February 19, 2016

Joseph McMurran

HOURS AND INFO

COVID INFORMATION:

Beginning April 23, 2022, the Museum will be open on Saturdays from 12:00-4:00 p.m. and Sundays 1:00-3:00. Visitors will be required to follow covid-19 precautions.

In addition, special tours are possible if a volunteer docent is available. Call 304-876-0910 on Tuesday, Wednesday or Friday to inquire.

The museum is open every weekend from April through October and during the holiday season:

• Saturdays from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
• Sundays from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Suggested donation: $4.00 per person. FREE admission to Historic Shepherdstown members, children, students & military.

Tours are available by appointment.

Walking Tour of Shepherdstown

Why were pigs banned from roaming freely in Shepherdstown?

See this beautiful quilt

Host your Gathering at the Historic Entler

2022 Speakers Series

Latest News

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