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DHR Easement Protects New Culpeper Battlefields State Park

Cemetery Excavations in Charles City County Yield Surprising Discovery

DHR Easement Projects Receive 2024 Governor’s Environmental Excellence Awards

Rediscovering the Blick Plantation Home in Southside Virginia

DHR Spotlight: Preservation Incentives Division

Grave Matters: The African American Cemetery & Graves Fund

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Photograph by Wendy Musumeci/DHR, June 8, 2024.

06/15/2024

DHR Easement Protects New Culpeper Battlefields State Park

DHR archaeologist Mike Clem cleaning up excavations at the Marston site

05/28/2024

Cemetery Excavations in Charles City County Yield Surprising Discovery

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05/13/2024

DHR Easement Projects Receive 2024 Governor’s Environmental Excellence Awards

Blick Plantation in Brunswick County.

04/22/2024

Rediscovering the Blick Plantation Home in Southside Virginia

Pure Oil, Cape Charles

04/22/2024

DHR Spotlight: Preservation Incentives Division

Union Street Cemeteries, City of Hampton

04/18/2024

Grave Matters: The African American Cemetery & Graves Fund

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12 Historic Sites Added to the Virginia Landmarks Register

State Historical Marker to Be Dedicated for Belmead in Powhatan

Virginia to Dedicate Historical Marker for Abolitionist Federal Judge John C. Underwood in Clarke County

State Historical Marker to Be Dedicated in Henrico County for Woodland Cemetery

State Historical Marker Dedicated for Enslaved People’s Escape from Slavery in Mathews County

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