VLCF Funded Projects

Virginia’s working farms and forests, battlefields and other historic sites, natural areas, parks and rivers are critical to its economy, culture and quality of life. In 1999, the assembly and governor established the Virginia Land Conservation Foundation (VLCF) to fund protection of these resources. The interactive map below depicts VLCF-grant projects funded since 2000.

Name:	Drexel-Morrell Center
Category:	Historic Area Preservation
Grant Round:	FY21 Round 2
Acres:	56.4
Locality:	Powhatan County
Management Agency:	Belmead on the James Inc.
Owner:	Private
ConserveVirginia:	Cultural & Historic Preservation
Amount Awarded:	$228,450.00
Applicant:	Belmead on the James Inc.
Latitude:	37.603526
Longitude:	-77.977084
Description:	The Drexel-Morrell Center was able to purchase the 56-acre Rosemont property in Powhatan that intersects the Cultural and Historic Preservation layer of ConserveVirginia. With the financial assistance of a VLCF grant, Belmead on the James conserved an historic home on the Virginia Landmarks Register and National Register of Historic Places; an original woodframe barn; 40 acres of pristine wooded space; 16 acres of open space; and a permanent waterway that bisects the property by placing the property under an open-space easement held by the Board of Historic Resources. Project partners included, among others, the Capital Region Land Conservancy. The project creates and preserves a safe-space museum for common stories, history, and cultural inter-enrichment. It is a protected learning place of preserved natural life and of beauty and simple peace where conservation and conversations combine to address how one acts locally to contribute globally to a wiser story of/on our earth. The project tells a crucially-important story of African American life impacted by the Drexel and Morrell schools in Powhatan.
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