Step into the warmth and charm of the season as Gloucester opens the doors to its most treasured historic sites! Join us for the Historic Holiday Open House, a festive evening filled with holiday cheer, community spirit, and a celebration of our rich heritage.

Experience "Freedom – Freedom Lost, Freedom Gained: The Pressing of Dunmore’s Proclamation"—a powerful living history performance presented by Shades of Our Past and the Watermen’s Museum.

Join us for a FREE event about limerick burning, a historic method once used by brick masons to roast oyster shells for mortar. The demonstration will show how oyster shells were turned into a vital building material.

Join the Gloucester Museum of History for the unveiling and dedication of its newly completed second-floor exhibit.

Dr. Martin Gallivan will present archaeological research on 1,400 years of Native settlement along the lower York River. Beginning around AD 200, Indigenous communities pioneered oyster fishery management and founded permanent villages long before agriculture. His talk highlights their sustainable practices and enduring lessons in environmental stewardship.

Following on the heels of General Lafayette’s triumphant Farewell Tour (1824-1825), we find him communing, as he often did, with his dear departed wife, Adrienne. They share with us their thoughts, their reminiscences, and their love.

Enjoy an afternoon of 18^th and early 19^th century compositions inspired by the American Revolution performed in the historic setting of our 1770 tavern ballroom!

Join us on October 3, 2025, to commemorate the 244^th anniversary of the Battle of the Hook.

Join the Woodville Rosenwald School Foundation Descendants Community Committee on Saturday, September 27th, from 12–4 PM for a special community gathering!

Gloucester County, Virginia, home of the American Revolution's second surrender, is proud to support the We the People: A Yorktown Battlefield Event- Revolutionary Festival and Ken Burns' new documentary screening.

This page will track all the local celebrations that Gloucester neighbors can partake in as we salute Yorktown!

Explore the Legacy Room at Bethel Baptist Church

Learn about Little England and its role in the victory at Yorktown

A dedication service will be held at Rosewell on Sunday, June 1 at 3 pm to celebrate past resilience and embrace renewal at the Remembrance Structure constructed on the manor’s north side.

Give me Liberty - Second Sunday Series

She Made History - Honoring Women of Gloucester Who Shaped History

Waiting for Washington at the Edgehill House

Celebrating Gloucesters Veterans

French soldiers memorial dedication

Celebrate Indigenous Peoples Weekend

James Armistead Lafayette- Second Sunday Series

From Colony to Country presented by the Fairfield Foundation

General Lafayette - Sunday Speaker Series

Second Sunday Series: The Gloucester Resolves