Purchase a Ticket Here - 2025 Historic Christ Church & Museum Lottery
The HCC&M Lottery is Here! What’s Old is New Again
Your support of HCC&M's lottery helps us preserve this incredible building and bring world-class education programs and events to the Northern Neck.
Only 250 tickets will be sold as a nod to the upcoming 250th anniversary of American independence. There are no physical tickets, but a unique number is associated with your online purchase. If you would prefer to come into the office, we can help you with your purchase. Or just click the link above!
Tickets are $100 each, and the cash prizes will be drawn on October 18th at the John H. Hunt II Chesapeake History Forum in the Bayne Center here at HCC. The grand prize is $3,000, second prize is $1500, and third prize is $500! There will also be two interim drawings: on August 7th the prize is professional catering for a cocktail party for 8 at your home, and on September 11th we will draw for a beautiful piece of jewelry from Burke’s. Winning an interim drawing does not preclude you from winning a cash prize!
Inspiration to create a new signature fundraising event came through one of our History Mystery contests. Here is an excerpt:
…This image from the Virginia Gazette of July 14, 1768, shows cash prizes for a lottery organized by some of Fredericksburg’s leading men, including Mann Page, Fielding Lewis, and Hugh Mercer. The “SCHEME” proposed 3,000 tickets at 20 shillings each. Of these, 213 tickets would be prizes, garnering anywhere from £500 for the grand prize to 180 prizes of £5 each; 2,787 would be “Blanks.” The gentlemen hoped to raise 450 pounds sterling for a new church in Fredericksburg as well as the purchase of this item, one seen in only a handful of churches in colonial Virginia, including Petsworth and Stratton Major, the latter who had theirs on loan from a parishioner who in announcing his intent to leave the colony in December 1772 advertised it for sale as “inferior to none on the continent.” The “item” mentioned in question was an organ for the new church in Fredericksburg.
So, what’s old is new again! We hope you will support the lottery and share this exciting opportunity with your friends and family.
Good luck!
