2024-04-28T15:48:10-07:00 2023-12-31 990EZ 2023-01-01 546076251 ISLE OF WIGHT COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ISLE 2162104445 PO Box 121 Smithfield VA 23431 James Henderson Treasurer 2162104445 2024-04-29 James Henderson 999009999 1 0 11 0 AAL2 2023 2023-04-26 12:10:37Z X X www.iwchs.com X X 65353 X 63651 0 579 974 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 149 114 35 0 65239 0 0 0 5441 0 646 9402 15489 49750 85842 0 135592 X 99342 148119 0 0 31500 31500 130842 179619 45000 44027 85842 135592 The purpose of the Isle of Wight County Historical Society is the social and educational advancement of its members and others in the community, with the objective of learning more of the history of the people, homes, sites and events of the county and state of Virginia from their post Colonial beginnings in the early 1600s as the first English colony as well as the indigenous people in the region before and since. 1. Speakers. The organization continues to arrange for several speaker programs each year, open without charge to the members and community. 2022 Oct 2 Sunday, Thompson M. Mayes, Why Old Places Matter. He is the chief legal officer and general counsel for the National Trust for Historic Preservation. He has specialized in both corporate and preservation law since joining the National Trust in 1986. Held at Historic St. LUKE's Historic Church & Museum, attendance about 90 and about 40 participants for dinner at the Smithfield Inn with remarks by Mayes. 2023 Jun 18 Sunday, Juneteenth Weekend, Stephanie Deutsch, author of You Need a Schoolhouse, about partnership of philanthropist Julius Rosenwald and educator Booker T. Washington Lecture on Freedom, Celebrating the Struggle for Black Education in the Rosenwald School Era with added remarks by Prof. Tommy Bogger, Dean of Liberal Arts, Norfolk State U, author of Work and Play, African-American Youths in Isle of Wight County 1920-1962. Held at Main Street Baptist Church, Smithfield VA, followed by Cracklin and Picnic Supper with Jazz-Blues-Country music and co-sponsored also with The Schoolhouse Museum. Attendance was about 300 of which about 100 mostly white and about 200 mostly black and others. 2023 Aug 13 Sunday, Robert B. Clontz, Statewide Fire Manager & Longleaf Pine Specialist, The Nature Conservancy, the Blackwater River Region through the eyes of a Naturalist. Held at Benn's United Methodist Church. Attendance about 50. 2023 Oct 23 Monday, Dr. Helen C. Rountree, Why Would the Indian People Build Their Town There? She is Professor Emerita of Anthropology at ODU, widely regarded as a leading researcher and writer on Virginia's Native American people, an honorary member of the Nansemond and Upper Mattaponi tribes, author and editor of books about Eastern American Indian tribes, primarily the Powhatan. Held at Smithfield Center. Attendance about 100. 2023 Nov 2 Thursday, Open house, OAK LEVEL ACRES on Courthouse Hwy with attendance about 50. Built 1768 by Francis Young, Clerk of Court 1787 to 1794, Revolutionary War era, passed down to 1 Francis Young II, Clerk of Court 1800-1801, 2 Nathanial Young, Clerk of Court 1801-1841, 3 Nathanial Peyton Young, Clerk of Court 1841-1869 and 1870-1896, 4 Nathanial F. Young, Clerk of Court 1896-1905. Clerkship was in the Young family 118 years, including preserving county records during the Revolutionary and Civil Wars. The present Courts building is named for Young and Laine families, both of long-time service to County government. 2023 Sept into 2024, contract arrangements and initial half payment of total $10000 honorarium plus other expenses for a dramatized staging 2024 April 21 of Thomas Jefferson as portrayed by Clay Jenkinson. 2. Website and Gravesite Survey. The organization continues to maintain a web site to promote historical information related primarily to Isle of Wight County, Virginia. This includes an inventory of all known public and private cemeteries and grave marker transcriptions in the county, currently 225 of them, with records of the inscriptions as found on tombstones by the multiyear efforts of Gravesite Survey Task Force (GSSTF). Provided some cemetery cleanup by volunteers and some paid work including Tyler cemetery in Windsor VA, including Georgie Tyler, longtime superintendent of segregated black schools, and the Josiah Parker grave site (Revolutionary War officer, Virginia planter, represented Isle of Wight County Virginia in revolutionary conventions, served in the Virginia House of Delegates and later as Virginia congressman in the 1st through 6th USA congresses. 0 8902 8902 Carolyn Keen President 15 0 0 0 Gerald Gwaltney Vice President 2 0 0 0 James Henderson Treasurer 15 0 0 0 William Garner Member-at-Large 0.2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 James Henderson PO Box 121 Smithfield VA 23431 2162104445 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 NONE NONE 1 X 1700 22860 21300 33565 64230 143655 285 400 200 987 35 1907 1985 23260 21500 34552 64265 145562 145562 426 376 366 352 974 2494 426 376 366 352 974 2494 2411 23636 21866 34904 65239 148056 0.98316 0.938 0.01684 0.062 X Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 16 Other expense for donation boxes $93, bank fees $106, archival supplies $178, liability insurance $300, and meetings programs honoraria $8724 Form 990-EZ, Part II, Line 24 Appraised and insurance value of bequest receipt of 4 antique paintings by Sharples and another donation of antique general store items. Form 990-EZ, Part II, Line 26 Description;EOY Amount^Grant re stabilize Ebenezer school Rosenwald;10000|Grant revise print ready Edition 3 of HH King book;10000|Lease obligation new HVAC not yet installed;24027^Total;44027^