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 Past9/7Dr. 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 Riverfront11/16Historic Shepherdstown Commission will host a public forum. This event will be a panel presentation and community discussion.
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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.
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129 E. German St.
Shepherdstown, WV 25443
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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 […]
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