East End High School East End High School opened near this location in Sept. 1953 to serve African American students during the segregation era. Mecklenburg County built the school with […]
Details and location TBA. More information at https://www.dhr.virginia.gov/boards/
Details and location TBA. More information at https://www.dhr.virginia.gov/boards/
This joint quarterly public meeting of the Virginia Board of Historic Resources and the State Review Board convened at 10:00 a.m. March 16, 2023 in Garden Hall, Maymont, 1700 Hampton […]
This joint quarterly public meeting of the Virginia Board of Historic Resources and the State Review Board convened at 9:30 a.m. June 15, 2023 in the Huntington Room at the […]
The joint quarterly public meeting of the Virginia Board of Historic Resources and the State Review Board convened at 9:30 a.m. September 21, 2023, in The Institute for Advanced Learning […]
Virginia Archaeology Month is in October 2023!
The public is welcome to join us on lab nights at the CAPE. Lab activities cater to all ages, ranging from cleaning the artifacts, processing cleaned artifacts, and occasionally mending […]
In celebration of Archaeology Month, Historic Germanna's Archaeology team will host special behind-the-scenes walking tours on each Friday morning in October of Germanna's archaeological dig sites located in Orange County, Virginia.The dig sites feature […]
Come visit the Fairfield Archaeology Park! We will host tours at the structure where you can learn about a colonial site! Occasionally, we will have excavations during these Fridays, but […]
The 1857 Slave Dwelling Restoration project is a community-engaged effort in collaboration with Poplar Forest's African American Advisory Group to begin restoring a two-story brick building originally inhabited by enslaved […]
Southern Towers is surrounded by history! Visit the Southern Towers Farmer's Market between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. to see artifacts from nearby sites, meet City archaeologists, and try your […]
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DHR has secured permanent legal protection for over 700 historic places - including 15,000 acres of battlefield lands
DHR has erected 2,532 highway markers in every county and city across Virginia
DHR has registered more than 3,317 individual resources and 613 historic districts
DHR has engaged over 450 students in 3 highway marker contests
DHR has stimulated more than $4.2 billion dollars in private investments related to historic tax credit incentives, revitalizing communities of all sizes throughout Virginia
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