Join us as we explore Victorian Funerary Customs with the Curator of the Poe Museum, Mr. Chris Semtner. The Poe Museum provides a retreat into early 19th century Richmond where Edgar Allan Poe lived and worked. The museum features Poe’s life and career by documenting his accomplishments with pictures, relics, and verse, and focusing on his many years in Richmond.

http://www.poemuseum.org/index.html

Poe Museum 1914-16 East Main Street

Richmond, VA 23223

Phone: (804) 648-5523 or 1-888-21E-APOE

Spirited History 2008-2010 (TM)

We had the distinct pleasure of having Jackie Tomlin founder of CVAPI; Central Virginia Paranormal Investigations; drop in to talk to us about some of the spirits that still linger at The Byrd Theater and The Ferry Plantation House located in Virgina.  Jackie is a clairvoyant psychic medium, paranormal investigator and Richmond Psychic & Paranormal columnist for Examiner.com.  Please join us as we chat with Jackie and find out more about these and other amazing sites located in Central Virgina.

Links:

CVAPI

Jackie’s Psychic Readings

CVAPI Facebook

Richmond Psychic & Paranormal Examiner Articles

Unfortunately, we received the devastating news on Tuesday that Chesterfield County will no longer fund the History Dept and docent positions after the end of this fiscal year, in June. What this means to the CHS ,(Chesterfield Historical Society), The County Museum and its part time Docent and the historic buildings is uncertain at this point.

Certainly, public response to the county leaders (Board of Supervisors) has the potential to affect what the final cuts will be, as we found last year when the budget cut was for our two part-timers. This year, the Parks and Rec department faces much more severe conditions and you may have heard that one-third of recreational programs will be cut in next year’s budget. What you haven’t heard is that the whole History section is part of that cut.

Our hope is to prevail upon the BOS to at least partially fund the History Section. That this can happen right before the 400th birthday of Henricus, which where the settlers came after Jamestown proved to be such a disaster and the sesquicentennial of the Civil War is unbelievable. Who will lead these commemorations if not the History Dept and CHS?

Spirited History Investigations has put together several proposals to help create funding for these sites and we are awaiting approval to start projects. Right now we could use you help.

How can you help:

People should be encouraged to e-mail their Supervisor with their thoughts. The Supervisors’ e-mail addresses are their last name, followed by the first initial of their first name @ chesterfield.gov. (e.g. warrena@chesterfield.gov for Art Warren)

These sites up for possible closure are:

CastleWood (home to the Chesterfield Historical Society and historic library)
Magnolia Grange Plantation ( will loose their docent who has been at this site for over 20 yrs)

http://www.chesterfieldhistory.com/S-Magnolia_Grange.shtml
http://www.chesterfieldhistory.com/S-Castlewood.shtml

We appreciate your love of history and are hopeful that you will join us as we try to keep our sites open and our staff employed!

LeeAnne
Organizer SHS

Angela
Asst. Organizer SHS

We had the pleasure of being joined by two lovely women and authors; Ellen Dugan and Marla Brooks; to talk about some of the lore and history surrounding one of our favorite holidays.

Halloween or Samhain, is thought of as a time of death and spooky apparitions, but what is the real history of this ancient holiday? Join us and discover some truths and learn a thing or two about where Halloween came from.

 

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

 

 

 

 

 

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Ellen Dugan

Marla Brooks

 

Spirited History 2008-2009 (TM)

Join us as we explore the historic Magnolia Grange Plantation located in Chesterfield County VA. We had the pleasure of chatting with Bryan Truzzie who is the Historic Site Specialist for Chesterfield Counties Parks and Recreation, as well as a member of the Chesterfield Historical Society of Virginia. He will take us on a historic journey of this beautiful plantation house.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Magnolia Grange Plantation

Chesterfield Historical Society of Virginia

 

Spirited History 2008-2009 (TM)

Please join us as we explore a 300-year-old gristmill that is believed to be the oldest in the country. This amazing historic site has seen many periods of history from Revolutionary War to the Civil War. On Dec. 2nd 1965 the mill was converted to The Swift Creek Mill Playhouse. We were fortunate to be the first paranormal team to investigate this lovely historic site. We will share our current findings and experiences from our investigation.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Swift Creek Mill Theatre

 

Spirited History 2008-2009 (TM)

Rev Tim Shaw drops in to talk about Wilderness Battlefield and some of the history and spirits that inhabit the old battlefield.  As always we had a fab time talking with Rev Tim and truly enjoy listening to his great stories.  We talk a little shop about some terms used during the civil war and also give some history to the battle that was such an important part of the Unions push to Richmond.

 

Rev Tim Shaw

Rev Tim Shaw’s Email : BlackCatLounge1@Yahoo.Com

 

Spirited History 2008-2009 (TM)

Poe Museum Piano Room 8-28-08

The Poe Museum - The Poe Museum is located in Richmond, VA.  A characteristic building that has seen a city build up around it.  The site itself was never home to Edgar Allen Poe and is fondly called the Little Stone House. 

Poe Museum

Poe’s Bicentennial

Haunts of Richmond Tour

Preservation Nation

Spirited History 2008-2009 (TM)