What has the Society done?

• Sponsored an oral history project that identifies eight African American families whose lineage dates back 100-150 years.
• Published a twenty-five page monograph called Town of Ashland’s African American Heritage Trail.
• Published a monograph called One and Two Room Schools: African American Education in Hanover County, 1870-1960. Four extensive interviews done as part of this project are in our archives, in both taped and transcribed form.
• Assembled a Traveling Exhibit that enables the various displays to be located in sites around the County.
• With a grant from the Hanover County Historical Commission, completed work on the preservation of the Rutland Slave Cemetery located on Route 301.
• With a grant from the Hanover County Historical Commission, established a County Historical marker honoring the nineteenth-century minister, John Clarke.
• Co-sponsored with the Hanover Heritage Alliance and the Virginia Department of Juvenile Justice a celebration of the Centennial Anniversary of the Barrett Juvenile Correctional Center, commemorating Janie Porter Barrett.