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Culpeper Minutemen Flag and hat display

Culpeper Minute Men: Icons of Independence

Museum of Culpeper History 113 Commerce Street, Culpeper

The Culpeper Minute Men was organized in the fall of 1775in response to Governor Patrick Henry’s call for the Virginia militia to protect the capital at Williamsburg. Their uniform consisted […]

Ongoing
Detail-National Portrait Gallery (Washington D.C.)

John Mercer Langston Hughes Exhibit

Carver 4-County Museum 9432 James Madison Hwy, Rapidan

The Carver 4-County Museum will be featuring a new exhibit honoring prolific writer, John Mercer Langston Hughes, born February 1, 1901, in Joplin, Missouri. He passed away in New York […]

Free

group of people sitting in a museum listening to a lecture

The Colonial Militia – Its Dress, Arms, and Equipment

Museum of Culpeper History 113 Commerce Street, Culpeper

This summer is the 250th anniversary of the creation of the Culpeper Minutemen militia. Join us as local historian Dennis Loba discusses the typical clothing, weapons, and accouterments worn and […]

$5