Patrick Henry’s Scotchtown is bringing fall spirit to the Hanover County community throughout October. Despite a last minute cancellation of the second annual Fall Festival last week, the museum is ...

A team of SUNY Orange students, supervised by a professor and an instructor, has unearthed more mastodon remains at the same site where a jaw was found in 2024. For six weeks, the 12 students ...

SCOTCHTOWN, Orange County (WABC) -- A prehistoric jaw was found in the soil in a New York backyard. The mastodon jaw, along with additional bone fragments were found in the backyard in Scotchtown, ...

HANOVER COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — The Scotchtown Museum in Hanover County will host a special history event to commemorate the 250th anniversary of Patrick Henry’s famous “Liberty or Death” speech on ...

Claire Schneider describes the terrifying moments Sunday morning captured in cellphone video received from a News 12 viewer. "We just heard a loud explosion and it sounded like a car hit a telephone ...

“Scotchtown’s 300th and Fall Festival was an amazing success,” said Preservation Virginia CEO Elizabeth Kostelny. “The event reaised $25,000 for preservation efforts at Scotchtown, and more than 500 ...

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to find a piece of history in your own backyard? Well, an Orange County resident recently found out. A complete mastodon jaw was unearthed from the ...

A New York homeowner, in Scotchtown, Orange County, was "thrilled" to find mastodon fossils in their backyard, which museum staff plan to study to learn more about the last ice age. When you purchase ...

A homeowner in New York uncovered a complete mastodon jaw in their backyard in what officials are calling a "remarkable discovery." The jaw of the extinct mammal, which was similar to an elephant, and ...