The King William County Historical Society has teamed up with County Administration to create multiple Map “layers” for identifying historic resources in the county. These sites can be a specific GPS …
King William County Burned Records Project
Many King William County Court records were destroyed by fire on January 17, 1885. Only 19 books from the county’s founding in 1702 until the 1885 fire survived. These books remained in storage at …
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Cemetery Documentation
The publication of the "King William Cemeteries" booklet in 1989 was a tribute to the hard work of Annie Page Russ, who had been named as the Society's "Graveyard Chairman" fifteen years earlier. A …
Stabilization of Acquinton Church Building
The King William County Historical Society acquired the deed for this church site in 1996. In 2007, one of our local archeologists, Summer Chaffman, who has had a lifelong desire to see these ruins …
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Lanesville Christadelphian Church
The King William Historical Society acquired the deed for this church in 2016. That year, with the support of a generous donor, we continued earlier stabilization and restoration efforts including the …
Old County Jail Restoration
The King William County Historical Society successfully renovated the historic jail in the old King William Court House complex in 2013. The jail was built in 1890. In 1940, it was used for …
