Archive of DHR Press Releases

• State Adds Eight Historic Sites to the Virginia Landmarks Register September 23, 2021
• State Historical Marker “Roger Arliner Young (1898-1964)” To Be Dedicated in Clifton Forge September 15, 2021
• DHR Announces 2021 Virginia Battlefield Preservation Grants to Protect 441 Acres September 2, 2021
• National Park Service Awards Grant to James Solomon Russell–Saint Paul’s College Museum & Archives in Brunswick County August 31, 2021
• State Historical Marker “Westwood Community” To Be Dedicated in Richmond August 20, 2021
• 17 New State Historical Highway Markers Approved June 23, 2021
• State Adds Nine Historic Sites to the Virginia Landmarks Register June 17, 2021
• DHR Announces Emergency Supplemental Historic Preservation Fund Survey and Planning Projects June 15, 2021
• DHR Announces Release of Emergency Supplemental Historic Preservation Fund Survey and Planning Projects June 15, 2021
• State Historical Marker “Central Lunatic Asylum” To Be Dedicated in Richmond Monday June 4, 2021
• Two State Historical Markers “Abijah Thomas (1814-1876) and his Octagonal House” & “Holston Woolen Mills” to be Dedicated in Smyth County June 3, 2021
• DHR Announces Availability of Virginia Battlefield Preservation Grants for Fiscal Year 2022 May 18, 2021
• State Historical Marker “Campbell County Training School” To Be Dedicated May 11, 2021
• State Historical Marker “Augustus N. Lushington, VMD” to be Dedicated in Lynchburg April 7, 2021
• Two State Historical Markers “Sallie Blount Mahood” & “Helen McGehee” To Be Dedicated in Lynchburg March 23, 2021
• State Adds Nine Historic Sites to the Virginia Landmarks Register March 18, 2021
• Ten New State Historical Highway Markers Approved December 15, 2020
• State Adds Seven Historic Sites to the Virginia Landmarks Register December 10, 2020
• DHR Announces Next Meeting of the Commission for Historical Statues in the U.S. Capitol December 9, 2020
• DHR Announces Publication of “The Archaeology of Virginia’s First Peoples” December 3, 2020