Past News

–  Archive of DHR Press Releases

• Community Outreach Coordination October 7, 2021
• Regulations Governing Contextualization of Monuments or Memorials for Certain War Veterans October 1, 2021
• Virginia Archaeology Month 2021 September 3, 2021
• African American Watermen Project August 11, 2021
• Re-Emergence of an Enslaved Family Cemetery on an Albemarle Farm July 22, 2021
• Expanding DHR’s Record of Virginia Cemeteries July 21, 2021
• Cemetery Conservation: Side Effects of Best Intentions July 16, 2021
• Remembering What We’d Rather Forget–Memento Mori July 15, 2021
• Hickory Hill Slave and African American Cemetery July 14, 2021
• One Virginia: DHR’s Strategic Plan for Inclusive Excellence July 1, 2021
• 17 New State Historical Highway Markers Approved, June 2021 June 22, 2021
• Nine Historic Sites Added to the Virginia Landmarks Register, June 2021 June 17, 2021
• Report on the Stewardship and Status of Virginia’s State-Owned Historic Property, 2021–2023 April 29, 2021
• 16 New State Historical Highway Markers Approved March 23, 2021
• New Survey Report: Reston, A Planned Community in Fairfax County March 15, 2021
• What Is Meant by “Historic Resource Survey” March 2, 2021
• DHR Announces Publication of “The Archaeology of Virginia’s First Peoples” December 3, 2020
• “Witch Bottle” October 30, 2020
• DHR Guidance Regarding Confederate Monuments June 25, 2020
• Why the COV Can Remove Richmond’s Lee Monument Despite its Designation to the State and Federal Historic Registers June 5, 2020