Archive of DHR Press Releases

• DHR Announces Cost Share and Planning Grant Awards for 2020-2021 October 1, 2020
• DHR Announces 2020 Virginia Battlefield Preservation Grants to Protect 610 Acres   October 1, 2020
• 15 New State Historical Highway Markers Approved September 23, 2020
• DHR Awards Federal Historic Preservation Funds for Projects in 10 CLG Localities September 4, 2020
• DHR Announces Meeting of the Commission for the Historical Statues in the U.S. Capitol July 16, 2020
• 35 New Historical Markers Approved in June June 25, 2020
• DHR Announces an Easement Donation on 33-plus Acres of New Market Heights Battlefield June 23, 2020
• 13 Historic Sites Added to the Virginia Landmarks Register June 18, 2020
• DHR Announces Availability of Battlefield Preservation Grants for 2020 June 10, 2020
• Governor Northam Designates May Historic Preservation Month in Virginia May 21, 2020
• 16 New State Historical Highway Markers Pending Approval March 26, 2020
• DHR Requests Applications for Hurricanes Florence and Michael Post-Storm Disaster Grant Program March 24, 2020
• State Historical Highway Marker “First Baptist Church” to be Dedicated in Petersburg February 5, 2020
• State Historical Marker “The Irene Morgan Story Begins” To Be Dedicated in Gloucester Co. January 28, 2020
• DHR Announces 2019 Virginia Battlefield Preservation Grants to Protect 398 Acres December 31, 2019
• 13 New State Historical Highway Markers Approved December 23, 2019
• 16 Historic Sites Added to the Virginia Landmarks Register December 17, 2019
• DHR Announces Publication of “A Guidebook to Virginia’s African American Historical Markers” December 5, 2019
• Historical Highway Marker “Morris Stanley Alexander (1891-1977)” To Be Dedicated in Lynchburg December 3, 2019
• Three State Historical Highway Markers To Be Dedicated in Town of Marion, Friday, Nov. 15 November 13, 2019