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Jefferson County Museum

6 days ago

Jefferson County Museum
Big news: The Jefferson County Museum has received a major grant of over $11,000 from the West Virginia Humanities Council!This grant will be used toward an upcoming exhibit, set to open in spring of 2025, featuring Jefferson County’s early history. The focus of the exhibit will extend from the prehistory of the area all the way to the early republic era, and encompass Native American habitation, colonization, the local impact of the Washington family, the American Revolution, and early industry in what is today Jefferson County.The Humanities Council grant will make possible in part the purchases of exhibit panels and promotional materials, as well as a light-limiting exhibit case to safely display some of the Museum’s rarest paper documents--including the 1779 land grant received earlier this week! The case will be eye-catching and interactive while at the same time protecting the documents from harmful rays, blocking 99% of both UV and visible light. This photo is similar to what the case will look like. You can help support this new exhibit and associated Museum activities here: jeffcomuseumwv.org/donate/See the WVHC website for other local grant recipients--recognize our photo on the homepage?: wvhumanities.org/ ... See MoreSee Less

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Jefferson County Museum

1 week ago

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We received a very significant donation to the Museum last week-- a land grant made out to Thomas Rutherford and signed by Thomas Jefferson. Rutherford was landowner in what is now Jefferson County, and the grant awarded him land in Yohogania County, VA (now in southwestern PA) in appreciation of his service in the French and Indian War. The grant was signed in 1779, in the midst of the American Revolution. Virginia used land grants like these to encourage the loyalty and enlistments of frontiersmen. Grants were given by the US government to veterans of the Revolution after the war and after subsequent wars as well. This important document will be displayed next spring, when we will open a new exhibit on the early history of what is today Jefferson County.Thank you to the Amoroso family for bringing this important piece of history home to Jefferson County! ... See MoreSee Less

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