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Welcome to our Shopping Cart, which allows you to order the publications of the King and Queen County Historical Society online and pay with your credit card securely through PayPal.

If you prefer to shop by mail and pay by check, please click on and use our printable, mailable order form.

Other items, including historical artifacts of King and Queen County, children’s books, maps, post cards and note cards are available in the small Museum Store, which we hope you will visit in person.

$22.00 (plus $4.25 shipping)

By Barbara Beigun Kaplan

This is a definitive history of the county from earliest Indian settlements to the present by a respected author of county histories. 279 pp, hardbound (1997).

$22.00 (plus $4.25 shipping)

By Virginia D. Cox and Willie T. Weathers

This is a well regarded history and pictures of the historic houses in King and Queen. 404 pp, hardbound. First published 1973. 1998 reprint limited to 1,000 numbered copies.

$15.00 (plus $2.25 shipping)

By Louise Eubank Gray

Exquisite vignettes of growing up in King and Queen County in the 1910s and 1920s by a noted local author. 216 pp., softbound. 2002 reprint (first published 1989).

$25.00 (plus $5.25 shipping)

By Elizabeth Hutchinson

This 24×30-inch map of the county shows the location of the historical houses and plantations in King and Queen County from Colonial days to the present. (1939)

Reproduced in 2023 by The King and Queen County Historical Society

$10.00 (plus $2.25 shipping)

By Edwin Cox

This is the most detailed history available of King and Queen County from the time of the first settlements until the Revolutionary War. 21 pp, 8.25×12.25 inches, softbound (1976).

$10.00 each (plus $2.25 shipping)

Printed copies of the two Indexes described in the section titled Research and available for download there are also available for purchase.

The Index to Numbers 1–50 is an 81-page document (8.5×11 inches) that covers No. 1 in 1956 through No. 50 in 1981.

The Index to Numbers 51–100 is a 64-page document (8.5×11 inches) that covers No. 51 in 1981 through No. 100 in 2006.

$2.00 per issue (plus $1.25 shipping) (Note: You must enter an issue number in the blank below.

These semiannual papers, usually 4-8 pages (8.5 x 14 inches) in length, feature articles on past events and people in King and Queen County history.

To determine which issue you want, refer to the Index to Bulletins — either your own printed copy or the PDF copy available under Research. Following each index listing is a number, for example, “Abbott’s Landing 31:7.” The first number (31) is the issue number, and the second (7) is the page number.

To order more than one issue, type in the number of the first issue you want below and click “add to cart”; then click “continue shopping” and repeat the process to add additional issues.

King and Queen Schools Coverlet

$25.00 (plus $7 shipping) (Note: You must enter your color choice — green or black — in the blank below.

This perfect gift and instant keepsake features sketches of thirteen early King and Queen County public schools and the Courthouse Tavern Museum superimposed over an outline of the County, framed by the names of many other county schools. The thirteen schools that are sketched are Newtown, Green Briar, King and Queen Training, Walkerton, Marriott, Church Hill, Stevensville, Court House, Centerville, Buena Vista, Pleasant Hill, Plain View Prospect, and Eastern View Log Schoolhouse.

Commissioned by the Historical Society and created by Mill Street Design, the coverlet comes in two color schemes: green and natural and black and natural. It is 100 percent cotton, two-layer Jacquard woven, pre-shrunk, color fast, machine washable and made in the U.S.A.

DVD COLLECTION Item

$5.00 (plus $1.25 shipping)

Over 60 DVDs are available. Most are of senior citizens relating their experiences early-to-mid 1900s in King and Queen County. There are also DVDs covering the early county schools and Native Americans.

To order more than one DVD, type in the number of the first DVD you want below and click “add to cart”; then click “continue shopping” and repeat the process to add additional DVDs.