Del Webb Sun Cities Museum
The Del Webb Sun Cities Museum preserves and shares the history of Sun City and Sun City West, the nation’s first active adult retirement community, opened in 1960 by Del E. Webb. Located in one of the five original model homes, the museum offers exhibits, photographs, and stories that highlight the vision, people, and events that shaped the "Community That Changed a Nation!"
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The mission of the Sun Cities Area Historical Society is to promote public awareness and appreciation of the history of Sun City and Sun City West. The Society collects, preserves, and displays materials and artifacts striving to inform present and future generations of the pioneering heritage of these unique active retirement communities.
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MAR 19, 2026
Yucca Questers to host fundraiser for Del Webb Sun Cities MuseumThursday, March 19th - two presentations: 10:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. Open to the Public / Freewill Donation Join the Yucca Quester Chapter for this special Fundraising Event at the Del Webb Sun Cities Museum! “The Truth About George Washington and the Cherry Tree” presented by Jim Bish, Author and American Revolutionary War and Colonial America Historian The Questers will be conducting a book sale on the museum’s patio. All proceeds benefit the Del Webb Sun Cities Museum and its ongoing preservation efforts. Jim Bish spent 30+ years teaching American and Virginia History in Prince William County, Va. and spent two years as an educator at the National Museum of the Marine Corps. He served Prince William County as a member of the Historical Commission, owns History Happened Here Tours, and volunteers with the National Museum of Americans in Wartime and the Del Webb Sun Cities Museum. Jim currently is on the Board of Directors of Historic Prince William, Historic Dumfries Inc., The Museum of Culpeper History, Immediate Past-President of the Culpeper Minutemen Chapter-VASSAR, and founded the Culpeper County, Virginia Cemetery Project. Jim will be available following his presentation to sign his new book, “I Can’t Tell A Lie: Parson Weems and the Truth about George Washington’s Cherry Tree, Prayer at Valley Forge, and Other Anecdotes.”