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A project to preserve Red Hill, the historic home and burial site of Patrick Henry, has won a 2024 gold Governor’s Environmental Excellence Award.
The Patrick Henry Memorial Foundation, Ward Burton Wildlife Foundation and Virginia Outdoors Foundation accepted the honor today at the 34th annual Environment Virginia Symposium at the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Va.
The awards, sponsored by the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality and the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation, recognize the significant contributions of environmental and conservation leaders.
The Patrick Henry Memorial Foundation received grants from the Virginia Land Conservation Foundation and Virginia Outdoors Foundation Preservation Trust Fund to place a conservation easement protecting 600 acres at Red Hill, near Brookneal, Va. Partners included the Beechtree Group.
Red Hill won in the category for implementation of the Virginia Outdoors Plan.
Three projects, which all received VLCF grants, won awards in the land conservation category.
New Market Heights Battlefield – Haskins Tract
The Capital Region Land Conservancy won a silver award for protecting 49 acres within the core area of New Market Heights Battlefield.
Funding sources included the American Battlefield Protection Program.
Pierces Low Grounds LLC
The Lee Family won a silver award for protecting 2,818 acres along the Pierces Low Ground tract that lies on the Meherrin River.
Partners included Rock Springs Forestry, The Nature Conservancy, the U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities, Enviva, the Virginia Outdoors Foundation and Beechtree Group.
Belmead on the James Inc.
Belmead on the James Inc. won a bronze award for preserving the Drexel-Morrell Center, a hub for cultural and educational activities with structures listed on the National Historic Register in addition to open space, streams and forests.
For the full list of winners, visit the DEQ website.
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