Providence, one of Middlesex County’s early architectural treasures, is a fitting location for the Middlesex County Museum and Historical Society’s spring fundraiser, from 2-4 p.m. Sunday, May 21.
by Holly Horton
Built around 1760 on the Piankatank River, the original aspects of the one-and a half-storied colonial house include hand-hewn beams held together with wooden pegs, massive brick walls and five chimneys standing over an English basement.
Providence, Two Bland Point Road, Deltaville, has weathered the dangers of two wars. It was shelled during the Civil War by a Union gunboat and a cannonball remains in a kitchen wall.
The Rev. Dr. Robert W. Prichard, professor emeritus of church history at the Virginia Theological Seminary, will deliver a speech entitled “The Political, Economic and Religious State of Virginia in the 1760s.”
The Rev. Dr. Prichard is vice president of the Middlesex County Museum and Historical Society. He is a graduate of Princeton University, Yale Divinity School and Emory University and has family roots in Middlesex. He is a former president of the Historical Society of the Episcopal Church and author or editor of ten books.
The event includes appetizers and a cash bar. Tickets may be purchased on the website at middlesexmuseum.com or by emailing info@middlesexmuseum.com. The tickets are $35 for adults, $30 for members and $25 for students and will also be available the day of the event. All proceeds benefit the museum.
Sponsorships of $250 include a private museum thank-you event in 2024 at another historic Middlesex home.
Holly Horton is the director of the Middlesex County Museum and Historical Society. Email her at Info@middlesexmuseum.com.
