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Historical Landmarks, Attractions & Museums

Museums

Visit all four Museums of Middlesex: Deltaville Maritime Museum, Middlesex Museum, Colonial Seaport's Luna and Urbanna Museum will share the stories of boatbuilding, homegrown war heroes, oyster harvesting and more! Take the Museum in the Streets self-guided walking tour of 14 historical sites in Urbanna or drive the Historic Marker Trail.

Colonial Seaport Foundation

Deltaville, VA 23043
Phone: 804-381-8558
Email J.H. Collamore
Colonial Seaport Foundation Website

Deltaville Maritime Museum & Holly Point Nature Park

287 Jackson Creek Road
Deltaville VA 23043
Phone: 804-776-9812
Deltaville Maritime Museum Website

Middlesex County Museum & Visitors Center

777 General Puller Highway
Saluda, VA 23149
Phone: 804-758-3663
Middlesex County Museum Website

OPEN- Thursday, Friday and Saturday 10AM to 3 PM

Urbanna Museum & Visitor Center

130 Old Virginia Street
Urbanna, VA 23175
Phone: 804-758-8181

Historical Landmarks & Attractions

1755 Mitchell Map

The 1755 John Mitchell Map at the Urbanna Museum. The most important map in American history.

Location
130 Virginia Street
Urbanna, VA 23175

F.D. Crockett

A restored 1924 log bottom buyboat. A featured attraction docked at the Deltaville Maritime Museum

Location
287 Jackson Creek Road
Deltaville, VA 23043

Hewick Plantation

A circa 1678 manor home with breathtaking tree-lined entrance. Still undergoing internal restoration, the immaculate grounds are available for outdoor weddings and events.

Location
5123 Old Virginia Street
Urbanna, VA 23175
Phone: 804-758-1678

James Mills Scottish Factor Store

Also known as "Old Tobacco Warehouse". A colonial merchant factor store where tobacco could be traded for finished goods from Europe. One of only two of such remaining structures of its kind in the United States.

Location
130 Virginia Street
Urbanna, VA 23175

Lower United Methodist Church

Free summer/custom group tours from June through September. For more information, call Brenda Brownly at 804-776-9799.

Location
120 Lower Church Road
Hartfield, VA 23071
Phone: 804-776-6250

Museum in the Streets

Museum in the Streets is a self-guided historical tour of Urbanna, which is one of twenty port towns established by an act of assembly in 1680. Simply scan a code with your phone to hear the narrated stories of 14 historical sites

For more information call 804-758-2613

Puller House

Drive by the modest home where the highly decorated Marine Lieutenant General Lewis Burwell "Chesty" Puller spent his retirement years. This is a privately owned home. For more information on Chesty Puller, please visit the Middlesex County Museum.

Location
732 Gloucester Road
Saluda, VA 23149
Phone: 804-758-3663

R.S. Bristow's General Store

The oldest retail store in Urbanna, established in 1876 and still operates as a high-end clothing boutique for men and women.

Location
200 Virginia Street
Urbanna, VA 23175

Rosegill Plantation

An 860-acre privately owned waterfront property on the Rappahannock River and Urbanna Creek. Three main houses built by Ralph Wormeley, the colonial governor of Virginia, that date back to 1650 (one hundred years older than most of Williamsburg homes).

Stingray Lighthouse at Stingray Point

Stingray Lighthouse, an exact full-scale replica of the original Stringray Point screwpile lighthouse built in 1853 that stood watch over the shoal at Stingray Point, separating the Rappahannock River and Piankatank River.

Location
19167 General Puller Highway
Deltaville, VA 23043
Phone: 804-776-7272