Winter 2025 Newsletter
Happy Holidays
All of us at HSWP would like to wish you and your family a Merry Christmas and a Happy 2026. We are very thankful for all of your support during 2025 and we look forward to an even greater year in 2026 to include the opening of our new exhibit space. May your holidays be happy, safe and blessed.
HSWP 2026 Budget
During the December meeting of the Board of Directors of HSWP, the budget for 2026 was adopted. Our budget for the year will be $39,300. All of our funding for operations comes from annual dues (please renew now, still only $25 for individual, $35 for family and $100 for business), item sales, and especially donations. We greatly appreciate your past financial support and hope that you will continue to support us as we discover and share the history of our town.
New Exhibit Space
Our new exhibit space is nearing completion with just a few minor touches left to do. We will display one of the early West Point fire pumper trucks, a 1925 Model T truck used at Chelsea Plantation, one of the original Tidewater Review printing presses and several other items. Stay tuned for the grand opening.
Student visit
In October, 79 West Point 4th grade students and teachers visited our museum to view the exhibits and learn more about the history of our town and our region. We think it was a real success and the students enjoyed their visit. We hope to host more student visits in the furure.
Ghost Tour
On October 30, the West Point Branch Library hosted the Ghosts of West Point Walking Tour. Bill Palmer scripted the tours and the West Point Drama Club members supplied the “ghosts.” The final stop on the tour was our museum where refreshments were served. We look forward to working with the Library on other events in the future.
Odds and Ends
We will soon be placing another order for memorial bricks. This is a great way to honor a loved one. Below is a link to order bricks.We continue to install historical markers around our town. Stop by the museum to get a map of locations for all of the installed markers.We are currently working with The Lafayette Trails, Inc to install a Lafayette sign in West Point in preparation for the 250 celebration. Lafayette spent several weeks in West Point in 1781 visiting with Carter Braxton prior to the Battle of Yorktown. HSWP would like to welcome our new members during the last quarter: Theresa and David Norman and Deb and Lee Hollandsworth. Please consider joining.
History Tidbit
With Christmas a few weeks away, we found this Tidewater Review showing how West Point was celebrating Christmas in 1954. We are always amazed in what we find in our collection of Tidewater Reviews. If you have not done so, stop by our museum and look for some personal history in our Tidewater Review archives. We can guarantee that you will enjoy.
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