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Rediscovering the Blick Plantation Home in Southside Virginia

DHR Spotlight: Preservation Incentives Division

Grave Matters: The African American Cemetery & Graves Fund

Professional Archaeologists Attend Metal Detecting Workshop

Heirloom Home: The Paige-Pollard House in King William County

Update: 2024 General Assembly Session

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Blick Plantation in Brunswick County.

04/22/2024

Rediscovering the Blick Plantation Home in Southside Virginia

Pure Oil, Cape Charles

04/22/2024

DHR Spotlight: Preservation Incentives Division

Union Street Cemeteries, City of Hampton

04/18/2024

Grave Matters: The African American Cemetery & Graves Fund

Group photo of AMDA participants

04/10/2024

Professional Archaeologists Attend Metal Detecting Workshop

A drawing by Conan Paige of his family home, the Paige-Pollard House.

02/29/2024

Heirloom Home: The Paige-Pollard House in King William County

01/10/2024

Update: 2024 General Assembly Session

Press Releases

State Historical Marker to Be Dedicated for ca.-1870 All-Girls School in Mecklenburg County

DHR Administers Two Easements Over Civil War Battlefield Land in Henrico County

State to Dedicate Marker at Appomattox Court House National Historical Park for Actions of U.S. Colored Troops During Civil War

8 New State Historical Highway Markers Approved

9 Preservation Projects Set to Receive Funding from Virginia BIPOC Fund Grant Program

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