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Rockbridge at Play
The Rockbridge Historical Society’s new exhibit, ROCKBRIDGE AT PLAY: Toys, Games & Histories, welcomes “kids of all ages” at the RHS Museum (101 E. Washington St.): open Saturdays & Sundays 12-4 PM through December 2025. The exhibit features a variety of toys, historic photographs, and locally-tied artifacts, drawn from both RHS’ permanent collections and unique community-sourced loans. Displays cluster around
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Rockbridge Weavers
Rockbridge Weavers: Families & Fabrics in the 19th Century “ROCKBRIDGE WEAVERS,” curated by Frances Richardson, is free and open to the public on weekends at the RHS Museum through December 2024 (Saturdays and Sundays, 12-4, 101 E. Washington St.). The origins of this project – archival and artisanal alike – drew from the discovery of
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Opening Old Doors: The Barns of Rockbridge
Opening Old Doors : The Barns of Rockbridge — Exhibit open through December 2019 Read More
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World War I and Rockbridge
This centennial exhibit highlights more local dimensions to the global conflict that has been revisited, these past four years, through a number of important statewide, national, and international World War 1 Commissions. The strength of what we have to offer draws not just on 80 years of RHS Collections, but on generous loans from some of our
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2015-2017 Exhibit
Images of the Rock Bridge – From Jefferson to Miley … to Today RHS exhibits a collection of 19th Century art prints and photographs of Natural Bridge. Highlights include greatly enlarged prints of the Bridge in the 1880s, taken from large-format camera photos by Michael Miley and C.H. James, a Philadelphia photographer who was engaged
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2013 Exhibit: Main Street Lexington, 1867
2013 Exhibit: Main Street Lexington, 1867 Beginning May 3, 25 framed virtual reproductions of the buildings that lined Lexington’s Main Street in 1867 are on view. These highly detailed color prints come from computer reconstructions that Col. Ed Dooley created based on existing buildings or from historic photographs. Using Google SketchUp software, he was able to model
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2012 Exhibit: Dialogue with Diamond Hill: Oral Histories, Oil Paintings, Historic Photographs
2012 Exhibit: Dialogue with Diamond Hill: Oral Histories, Oil Paintings, Historic Photographs Campbell House is proud to host the new exhibit, A Dialogue with Diamond Hill. Co-sponsored by the Historic Lexington Foundation (HLF) and the Rockbridge Historical Society, the exhibition features a series of oral histories, dozens of historic photographs, and twenty original oil paintings
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2011 Exhibit: When Rail Ruled the Valley
2011 Exhibit: When Rail Ruled the Valley The summer 2011 RHS Exhibit depicts a century of railroading in the Valley of Virginia though the medium of two dozen original works of art by local artist, Louis Caddell. Using pencil, pen and watercolor, Caddell has recreated images of the Rockbridge County depots serving the Valley Railroad
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Older Exhibits
Feb. 2009-May 2010: Visions of Rockbridge May 2008-Feb. 2009: The Golden Age of Childhood in Rockbridge County, 1890-1950 Apr. ’04 – Feb. ’05: Sixty-Five Years of Collecting Nov. ’03-Apr. ’04: Exhibits from Stonewall Jackson House Nov.’02-Feb. ’03: The Photography of Michael Miley – Gen. Lee’s photographer May-Oct. ’02: Patrick Hinely’s photos, Dorothy Blackwell’s antique pottery
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Images of the Rock Bridge
From Jefferson to Miley … to Today RHS exhibits a collection of 19th Century art prints and photographs of Natural Bridge. Highlights include greatly enlarged prints of the Bridge in the 1880s, taken from large-format camera photos by Michael Miley and C.H. James, a Philadelphia photographer who was engaged by the Natural Bridge Forest Company.
