Past Events

The Silver Lake & Mill: 200 Years of Stories with Cheryl Lyon and Deb Thompson A presentation to celebrate the bicentennial year of Silver Lake and the Mill in Dayton,…

June 16, 2022, 7pm Presenter Bev Appleton’s program was filled with images, history notes, and anecdotal remembrances, covering about 100 years from the antebellum period to post-WWII. View the program…

Saturday, November 20, 2021, 10a; limited seating, registration required, suggested donation $10 In “Sadie’s Silence,” author Libby Layne introduced readers to her grandmother Sadie Zigler Wampler, whose short life exemplified…

Thursday, November 4, 2021, Hybrid Event In recent years, evidence from archaeological investigation changed the story of what has been known for decades as the Thomas Harrison House. How do…

Sun, Oct 24, 3p; limited seating, registration required, suggested donation $10. Save Your Seat! Find us next to Ten Thousand Villages for a dose of holiday spirit with this heartwarming…

Thursday, June 17, 2021, 7pm Zoom Webinar While Unionist sentiment remained strong throughout the Shenandoah Valley as Virginia debated secession in late 1860 and early 1861, those pro-Unionist leanings waned…

Thursday, May 20, 2021, 7pm Zoom Webinar From log cabins to drive-ins, the story of America is reflected in the architectural heritage of the Shenandoah Valley. In the 1700s, emigrants…

Thursday, April 15, 2021, 7pm Zoom Webinar You won’t find the name of Archer Alexander (born in 1806 in Rockbridge County, Virginia) on the 1876 Emancipation Memorial in Lincoln Park,…