Northern Neck - Museums

Museums

• A.T. Johnson High School Museum - one of the first African-American high schools in the Neck, located in Montross
• Essex County Museum and Historical Society in Tappahannock - relates Neck history from pre-colonial through today
• George Washington Birthplace National Monument documents the life of local George Washington and agricultural practices of the colonial period
• Historic Christ Church in Weems - built in 1735, is one of the best-preserved of colonial Virginia's Anglican parish churches
• Kilmarnock Town Museum - local history
• Kinsale Museum - local history
• Museum at Colonial Beach - local history
• Westmoreland County Museum & Library - local history
• Richmond County Museum - local history
• King George County Historical Society Museum - local history
• Mary Ball Washington Museum and Library - features Lancaster County History with exhibits and speakers. The History and Genealogical Library has approximately 10,000 books and manuscripts, with emphasis on the Northern Neck, Virginia and Maryland colonial records, local family genealogies, plantations and churches, and all major state and local periodicals and magazines
• Menokin - home of Francis Lightfoot Lee, who signed the Declaration of Independence, located in Warsaw
• Morattico Waterfront Museum - features the Morattico Country Store, wharf, and crab and fishing industry along the Rappahannock River in Lancaster County
• Northern Neck Farm Museum - farming in the area
• Reedville Fisherman's Museum - local fishing industry
• Steamboat Era Museum - history of steamboats when the rivers were the most important transport routes in the state
• Stratford Hall Plantation - built in 1730, birthplace of Robert E. Lee, exhibits of his life