Blog Posts Archive

DeBraak tours, the 18th Annual Chautauqua and an evening of readings by Delaware poets and authors among the events to be presented.

Web-based system is now available for public use.

New hire serves as a cultural preservation specialist based at the division’s main office in Dover.

Hello to Emily Whaley; thanks to Alice Guerrant for decades of service.

Additions made to the Buena Vista Conference Center, Preservation and Site Management teams.

Employee discussed his experiences and perspectives as a young, emerging professional in the historic-preservation field.

Designation encourages successful preservation programs and practices in Delaware’s capital city.

Deadline for submission of comments: May 4, 2018.

Article on the need for rehabilitation of the dikes in and around the City of New Castle, Del.

By: Jesse Zanavich, Architectural Historian Delaware State Historic Preservation Office With the cold weather here and utility bills on the rise, many historic homeowners may be wondering what they can […]

The public will soon be able to explore information on a handful of the free and enslaved people who lived, worked and died at the John Dickinson Plantation through an enhanced online spreadsheet that is part of a larger Plantations Stories Project.

This spring, the Delaware Division of Historical and Cultural Affairs released its updated curation guidelines for archaeological items as another way to modernize the way the division cares for and […]

A story map chronicling dozens of early 20th century schools built for African American and Native American students in Delaware is now available for the public to explore.

Learn more about the history of a Sussex County church and the effort to list it as a National Historic Landmark.

By Madeline Dunn, Delaware Division of Historical and Cultural Affairs’ historian and National Register of Historic Places coordinator

Find out what it takes to preserve artifacts with environmental controls, maintenance and continuous monitoring as climate conditions change.