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04/09/2025

State Board Approves 9 Historical Highway Markers

03/27/2025

State Historical Marker Unveiled for Suffolk Community Founded by Formerly Enslaved Man

03/26/2025

9 Historic Sites Designated as Virginia Landmarks

03/25/2025

State Historical Marker Dedicated for Old Folks Home in Essex County

03/05/2025

Second Round of Paul Bruhn Historic Revitalization Grants Program-Appalachian Southwest Virginia Opens

03/03/2025

State Historical Marker Dedicated in Cumberland County for John Robinson, Black Virginia Senator During Reconstruction

02/06/2025

Next Round of Virginia Black, Indigenous, and People of Color Historic Preservation Fund Now Open

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01/29/2025

DHR Administers Easement Over Ellen Glasgow House in City of Richmond

01/28/2025

State Historical Marker to Be Unveiled for Douglas School in Winchester, Va.

01/09/2025

7 New State Historical Highway Markers Approved

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