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Grave Matters: The African American Cemetery & Graves Fund

Virginia Landmarks Register Spotlight: Virginia Beach Oceanfront Motels and Hotels

Preserving the Bristoe Station Civil War Battlefield

Kingsmill Revisited: The Skiffes Creek Curation and Conservation Project

An Overview: The DHR Threatened Sites Grant Program

African American Schools in Virginia: A Multiple Property Document (MPD) Project

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Waterford Union of Churches African American Cemetery

10/01/2024

Grave Matters: The African American Cemetery & Graves Fund

A 1985 photograph showing the original Beach Carousel road sign.

09/30/2024

Virginia Landmarks Register Spotlight: Virginia Beach Oceanfront Motels and Hotels

View of the Rollins Tract in prince william county

09/23/2024

Preserving the Bristoe Station Civil War Battlefield

Kingsmill historic sites excavations

09/20/2024

Kingsmill Revisited: The Skiffes Creek Curation and Conservation Project

Members of the Chesapeake Archaeology Lab (CAL) at the University of William & Mary

09/13/2024

An Overview: The DHR Threatened Sites Grant Program

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09/10/2024

African American Schools in Virginia: A Multiple Property Document (MPD) Project

Press Releases

State Historical Marker to Be Dedicated for Polegreen Church “Dissenters’ Glebe” in Hanover County

9 New State Historical Highway Markers Approved

State Historical Marker Dedicated for Earliest-Known Black Sheriff in the North

Virginia Dedicates Historical Marker for Richmond’s First Municipal African Cemetery

8 Historic Sites Added to the Virginia Landmarks Register

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