General Info

To be the premier resource for local history and provide quality programs, exhibits and information to residents of and visitors to Chesterfield County, and to support the educational goals of the public school system as well as home schooled students. Who We Are The Chesterfield Historical Society of Virginia traces its origins to a Museum Board organized in 1961 and its home in the opened in 1980. The Society was established in 1981 to meet a growing demand for genealogical and historical research. In 1986, the Society opened Magnolia Grange ( c. 1822 ) on Ironbridge Road as a historic house museum. Since 1998, the Society head office has been Castlewood ( 1817 ) on the corner of Iron Bridge Road and Krause Road which also houses our research Library. The Society oversees preservation of several Civil War sites in the county and its operations have also included the 1892 Jail and the 1917 Court House which are currently closed for restoration.