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Historic Shepherdstown Museum Reopens with Regular Hours
The Museum reopened on June 12. Read all about it in the Shepherdstown Chronicle’s June 18, 2021 article.
Photo by Tabitha Johnson and used with permission.
Remembering Shepherdstown’s Civil War Veterans on Memorial Day
There’s a new small display in the 3rd floor hallway of the Museum, opposite the Civil War Room. It’s an enlarged copy of two pages from a diary kept by […]
Back to the Future? The Zittle’s Hundred Years Almanack
Have you ever worried about lice in your cabbage? Does your milk taste like turnips? Does your canary have asthma? Or maybe you want to stop your cows, or perhaps […]
2020 Preservation Award Winners
Historic Preservation Month award winners May is National Historic Preservation Month and we celebrate by honoring individuals involved in preservation efforts in the Shepherdstown area. Traditionally the awards are presented […]
On This Day in History: March 10, 1920
On March 10, 1920, West Virginia became the 34th State to ratify the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which prohibited the states from denying women the right to vote. […]
Speakers Series, 2019 – Joseph Goss, Rediscovering a Local Log Farmhouse
In his talk, “Rediscovering the History of a Long-Forgotten Shepherdstown Log Farmhouse,” Mr. Goss will describe his determined efforts to research the history of the log home near Shepherdstown he and […]
Holiday Tour of Historic Churches
A partnership of Shepherdstown churches and community organizations is sponsoring the first Shepherdstown Tour of Historic Churches on December 26 from 3:00 to 6:00 p.m. The churches, all located in […]
2018 Christmas Ornament Now Available
Historic Shepherdstown now has its 2018 Christmas ornament available for sale. This year it is the historic Entler Hotel. It is the fourth in a series of historic buildings by […]
Speaker Series, 2018: Images From the Right Bank: The Lives and Times of the Botelers of Fountain Rock
Dr. Jerry Bruce Thomas will present “Images From the Right Bank: The Lives and Times of the Botelers of Fountain Rock” at Shepherd University’s Byrd Auditorium on November 14, 2018 […]