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Exhibit work is always fun. The project list is varied and ongoing. With such a diverse selection, we hope that you find something that will appeal to you. You can make a difference! Please help us and share your time. Sample: Cataloging Mineral Collection, Cataloging Fossil Collection, Revolutionary War Soldier Research, Yard Maintenance, Dusting and Vacuuming Cataloging Mineral Collection Large personal collection of minerals gifted to museum needs to be cataloged into the

The museum was gifted 3 humpback whale bones this week through a donation by Joe Ransone of Wake. His father Carl Ransone, Sr. found them in the mid 1970’s in Wake on the banks of the Rappahannock River, near Bushy Park.

Middlesex was ranked as 80 th in the Ninety-five Virginia Counties included in the census survey. Our total population was 4,392 with over half, 2,209, enslaved people. Maryland established an oyster shucking house in Baltimore in 1836. The first large shucking house in Virginia was opened in 1859 in Norfolk, and Middlesex sent our oysters from the Piankatank and Rappahannock Rivers to both cities. We were a farming community, our local crops of beans, melons, and tomatoes w