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 and the National Register of Historic Places. Roughly an equal number of Virginia resources also have been recommended potentially eligible for inclusion in the two 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 not 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 Drawings, correspondence, newspaper clippings, and published and unpublished materials are also available in a number of the files.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 state 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 DHRs permanent collection is available in the archi
