RICHMOND – Among the 11 places recently listed in the Virginia Landmarks
Register are a public library that was the site of a 1960 sit-in led by the Reverend Wyatt Tee Walker, a renowned leader of the Civil Rights Movement; a cemetery for
some of the earliest German immigrant settlers in Virginia and one of American
railroad history’s most striking steam locomotives that transported passengers in
the 1950s.

The Commonwealth’s Board of Historic Resources approved the Virginia Landmarks Register listings during its quarterly public meeting on December 14 in Richmond.

The Virginia Landmarks Register is the commonwealth’s official list of places of historic, architectural, archaeological, and cultural significance.

The only local entry was Dutch Hollow Hanger Cemetery in Augusta County, which contains the graves of some of the first German immigrant settlers to inhabit the community known as Dutch Hollow and the surrounding area in the early to mid-1700s.

The earliest known burial in the cemetery dates back to 1798 while the last recorded grave was filled in 1919.