Are all of the properties on the archives maps considered “historic”?
There are more than 2,000 structures, districts, bridges, objects, and sites in the Virginia Landmarks Register or the National Register of Historic Places, and roughly an equal number of Virginia resources that have been recommended potentially eligible for inclusion in the registers by the Department of Historic Resources (DHR). However, the majority of the resource files in the DHR inventory are of properties that have been surveyed, but have not been officially evaluated by the department. Most of these files contain written resource descriptions, photographs, and maps. Drawings, correspondence, newspaper clippings, and published and unpublished materials are also available in a number of the files. The files for the properties in the Virginia or national registers contain copies of their nomination forms and correspondence related to the process of listing of the resource. Database information, including resource location, on the inventory in DHR’s permanent collection is availabl
