A Sense of Belonging

In addition to creating exciting teaching and learning opportunities for teachers and students, department staff educates private property owners, investors, developers, mortgage lenders, real estate professionals, tourism planners, and local government officials, and civic leaders about the public and private benefits of putting a community's historic resources to work.

Publications.  The department's annual journal, Notes on Virginia, and its quarterly newsletter, Preservation in Progress, support local preservation efforts across the state.

Among the department's invaluable references to aid in using historic resources for public and private benefit are: books  such as:

• A Guidebook to Virginia's Historical Markers
• First People: The Early Indians of Virginia
• Lost Virginia
• The Virginia Landmarks Register
• Virginia Landmarks of Black History
• The Official Virginia Civil War Battlefield Guide
• Two Mecklenburg Towns: Boydton and Clarksville
  
  and booklets such as:
   
• Virginia's Historical Registers: A Guide for Property Owners
• Researching Your Historic Virginia Property
• Preserving a Legacy: Virginia's Historic Preservation Easements
• Financial Incentives Guide
• Tourism Handbook: Putting Virginia's History to Work.

Education & Outreach

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The Archaeological Resource Kit (the ARK) contains a Teacher's Guide and hands-on reproduction artifacts of tools and items used by Virginia's first people.