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Grave Matters: The African American Cemetery & Graves Fund

Virginia Landmarks Register Spotlight: Miles B. Carpenter House

Easement Stewardship Spotlight: The Gentry Farm

Recent Highlights of DHR’s Preservation Incentives Programs: 2024-2025

Historic Preservation and the City of Martinsville

Virginia Landmarks Register Spotlight: Ida Mae Francis Tourist Home

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Evergreen Cemetery in the City of Richmond

05/01/2025

Grave Matters: The African American Cemetery & Graves Fund

Miles B. Carpenter at his home in Waverly

04/30/2025

Virginia Landmarks Register Spotlight: Miles B. Carpenter House

Harrison family at Gentry Farm

04/25/2025

Easement Stewardship Spotlight: The Gentry Farm

The Professional Building

04/22/2025

Recent Highlights of DHR’s Preservation Incentives Programs: 2024-2025

Winn Dixie Grocery Store

04/17/2025

Historic Preservation and the City of Martinsville

The Ida Mae Francis Tourist Home as it appears today.

02/13/2025

Virginia Landmarks Register Spotlight: Ida Mae Francis Tourist Home

Press Releases

State Historical Marker to Be Unveiled in Fairfax County for ‘Desegregation of Community Clubs’

Barbara Rose Johns Statue Approved by Commission for Historical Statues in the United States Capitol

State Designates 9 Historic Sites as Virginia Landmarks

Commission for Historical Statues in the United States Capitol Set to Approve Barbara Rose Johns Statue

State Historical Marker Dedicated for North Pamunkey Baptist Church in Orange County

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Ivy.Tan@dhr.virginia.gov
804-482-6445

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