Blog Posts Archive

Office’s programs help to preserve Delaware’s historic places and unique cultural identity.

Board will review three new nominations to the National Register of Historic Places.

Board meeting to include review of two nominations to the National Register of Historic Places.

Certification awarded by the International Facilities Management Association.

2016 Bamberger Historic Preservation Award recognizes improvements to four state-owned historic properties in New Castle.

Dec. 12, 2016 event recognized 2016 achievements.

Cards evoke the experiences that visitors can expect when they visit these iconic places in Delaware history.

Report tells the agency’s 2015 story as seen through the accomplishments of its employees and volunteers.

Seventeen individuals volunteered their services in September 2016.

Additions made to volunteer-services, horticulture and site-management teams and at the Buena Vista Conference Center.

Highlights of the month include programs on the saving of The Old State House, a symposium on the early Colonial archaeology of the Delaware Valley region and the Zwaanendael Maritime Celebration.

18th Century Market Fair, candle making and music of World War I among the events to be presented.

Eight winter-holiday-themed activities among the programs to be offered.

William Penn Day, Halloween programs and lantern tours to be featured.

History meets sci-fi, vintage classical-recordings and the raid on the John Dickinson Plantation to be featured.

Highlights of the month include programs on Edgar Allan Poe, Delaware’s Dutch heritage and a quilt documentation day.