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The Virginia Landmarks Register

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The fourth edition of The Virginia Landmarks Register is an entirely new, fully illustrated compilation of the state’s buildings, structures, sites, and districts which have been officially designated as historic landmarks by the Virginia Board of Historic Resources during the last thirty years. The assemblage of nearly 1,800 entries―700 more than in the third edition, published in 1986―represents the most comprehensive inventory of Virginia’s wealthy and varied historic patrimony ever published.

An invaluable reference for any Virginian, scholar, planner, architect, or preservationist, the Register is excess of an official list of names. Each and every registered landmark and district is identified by a brief history documenting its significance and by a brief description. Every entry is accompanied by a photograph showing its current appearance. Arranged alphabetically by county and independent city, the entries include not only many nationally famous places but all the spectrum of the Commonwealth’s cultural resources, from a 1,200-year-old prehistoric archaeological website through twentieth-century commercial architecture, from gristmills and metal-truss bridges and iron furnaces to NASA space exploration installations.

Those interested in traditional Virginia architecture will discover a multiplicity of building types, both high-style and vernacular. Included, too, are necessary landmarks of black history, the Civil War, education, and industry. The Virginia Landmarks Register, fourth edition, will create for the reader a deeper awareness of a unique legacy and will serve to support the stewardship of Virginia’s irreplaceable heritage.

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