ABOUT US

What Are We?

An IRS 501(c)3 nonprofit corporation, The Carver 4-County Museum, Inc. is a community-based museum that produces and publishes research about regional history, and formulates that research into entertaining and educational exhibits for all ages.   

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Our values:  Citizenship * Partnership * Stewardship 

 

Our 2025 Theme:  Growth Through Outreach

 

 

Mission: 

The museum's mission to document, celebrate and share the educational, social, cultural and military history of students, their parents, faculty, administrators, and supporters of George Washington Carver Regional High School, the FIRST and ONLY institution of secondary education built in Virginia to serve minority students from four counties from 1948 - 1968:  Culpeper, Madison, Orange and Rappahannock.  

 

 

​New Hours for the Winter:

Contact Charlotte Carpenter at (540) 270-3891 for an appointment to visit the museum while we are closed from January to mid-March while we refurbish the museum and change some of the exhibits.  

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Background:

The Museum, officially organized in 2016, is governed by a board of directors. It occupies the former library of the school where the County of Culpeper contributed more than $100,000 in renovations.  We hosted a Preview Opening for our alumni in October, 2018, and our Grand Opening was in February, 2019.  We are financially supported by grants, donations, an in-kind services.    

​Most Recent Celebration:

From October, 2022 through October, 2023, with tremendous community support, we celebrated the 75th anniversary of the opening of our alma mater.