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The
Virginia
Department of Historic
Resources
(SHPO) provides a wide variety of heritage
education materials, including audio-visuals,
videos, traveling trunks, and publications
regarding historic architecture, National Register
properties, community history, objects and
artifacts, historic sites, and archaeology. A
teachers' guide, "Teaching With Historic Places" is
provided free upon request to teachers interested
in using historic places in teaching history,
civics, government, math, science, and language
arts.
Virginia Department of Historic Resources
221 Governor Street
Richmond, VA 23219
(804)786-3143
FAX (804)-225-4261
The Historic
Staunton Foundation
offers heritage education materials relating to
local history and historic architecture. They
provide audio-visuals including slides and
photographs, and traveling trunks relating to
architecture in Staunton. Other services include an
architectural treasure hunt, walking tours, and
self-guided tour brochures. An educational unit
relating to architecture has been developed for the
fourth grade.
Historic Staunton Foundation
120 S. Augusta St.
Staunton, VA 24401
540-885-7676
FAX 540-885-5976
The Preservation of Historic Winchester
conducts teacher workshops on heritage education,
and provides materials on historic architecture,
national register properties, community history,
and historic sites.
Preservation of Historic Winchester, Inc.
2 North Cameron Street
Winchester, VA 22601
540-667-3577
FAX 540-667-3583
Arlington
Public Schools
1426 Quincy Street
Arlington, VA 22207
A series of booklets and lesson plans at the
middle-school level on architecture, maps,
community history, historic documents, and
artifacts is offered by this school district.
The National Trust for Historic Preservation has
three Historic Properties and two Costewardship
Properties in Virginia:
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