The Middlesex County Museum and Historical Society (MCM&HS) will conduct a special program Sunday, Aug. 9, at 3 p.m. at the Middlesex County Historic Courthouse when Joanna McKnight from the Virginia Department of Historic Resources (DHR) will present an educational talk on preservation of historic buildings. The old courthouse is at 865 General Puller Highway in Saluda.
The program is an effort by the museum to find ways to protect historical county structures and to speak to ways county citizens, Middlesex County Board of Supervisors and the planning office can develop guidelines to save historical properties from bulldozers.
The 1840s Hartfield mansion, “Woodstock on the Piankatank,” sometimes referred to as the “Lincoln house,” and two other structures on the property were razed in March 2026 through a county-approved demolition permit obtained on Oct. 23, 2025.
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