Past News

2022-2023 Survey and Planning Cost Share Program

susie-g-gibson-high-school
Susie G. Gibson High School in Bedford County.
Susie G. Gibson High School in the Town of Bedford.
Susie G. Gibson High School in the Town of Bedford.
DHR is now soliciting applications for our 2022-2023 Survey and Planning Cost Share Program. Cost share projects are funded through a partnership between DHR and a local government and/or regional planning district commission. Eligible projects encompass a broad range of survey and planning activities, protection of historic resources through identification, documentation and evaluation, and preservation planning activities consistent with the responsible stewardship of historic resources. The deadline for applications is 4 p.m., April 1, 2022.
More information about the program and the application can be found on the DHR website or by contacting Blake McDonald at DHR (blake.mcdonald@dhr.virginia.gov). The Request for Applications is available here. The image below shows the Susie G. Gibson School in the Town of Bedford. The school was constructed in 1953 to provide “separate but equal” facilities for Bedford County’s Black high school students during the era of Jim Crow segregation. The Town of Bedford used Survey and Planning Cost Share Program funds to nominate  Susie G. Gibson School  and the Bedford Training School to the National Register of Historic Places in 2021.

Related Blogs

Middle Archaic stone tools

Ask an Archaeologist: Ancient Stone Tools Discovered in Hanover County Yield Many Questions, Few Answers

Millwald Theater

A Star Is Reborn: The Rehabilitation of Wytheville’s Millwald Theatre

Screenshot 2023-05-26 085044

Quarterly Newsletter Spring 2023

total-archaeological-sites_02-1024x576

State Superlatives in Historic Preservation

Pre-FooterBG

DHR Hosts Virtual Battlefield Grant Program Workshop

Pre-FooterBG

Virginia Landmarks Register Spotlight: Rosemont of Powhatan County

Pre-FooterBG

A Study in Preservation Excellence: Bedford Training School

Pre-FooterBG

Grave Matters: The African American Cemetery & Graves Fund

Pre-FooterBG

Old Mansion in Caroline County: History, Houses, and Horses