Our Mission: To collect, preserve, interpret and promote the county’s past for the education and enjoyment of present and future generations.
Our Mission: To collect, preserve, interpret and promote the county’s past for the education and enjoyment of present and future generations.
Chartered on September 23, 1981 to meet the growing demand for genealogical and historical research, the Chesterfield Historical Society of Virginia (CHSV) traces its origins to a Museum Society organized in 1961. The Museum Society was responsible for the first Chesterfield County Museum which opened in 1980.
We are a charitable member organization supported by dedicated volunteers and governed by-laws and an all-volunteer Board of Directors. CHSV is incorporated as a 501 (c) 3 organization in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
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Historical Highway Marker of the Month
Historical Highway Marker of the Month
Warwick was an important 18th-century James River port and manufacturing center. During the Revolutionary War, Warwick’s craftsmen turned out clothing and shoes, and its mills ground flour and meal for the Continental troops stationed at Chesterfield Courthouse. On April 30, 1781, British troops under Benedict Arnold burned the town, destroying ships, warehouses, mills, tannery storehouses, and ropewalks. Search for Marker S-2 on the Virginia DHR Historic Markers Database.
