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GARTH NEWEL — The Garth Newel Music Center between Mitchell-town and Warm Springs will be recognized with a state historical marker when the Virginia Department of Historic Resources visits Bath County next week. The sign will be dedicated Wednesday, Sept. 18, at 5 p.m. Garth Newel is one of four historical markers that will be unveiled next Wednesday in Bath County. (Photo Courtesy of Garth Newel)
GARTH NEWEL — The Garth Newel Music Center between Mitchell-town and Warm Springs will be recognized with a state historical marker when the Virginia Department of Historic Resources visits Bath County next week. The sign will be dedicated Wednesday, Sept. 18, at 5 p.m. Garth Newel is one of four historical markers that will be unveiled next Wednesday in Bath County. (Photo Courtesy of Garth Newel)
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RICHMOND—Bath County history will be honored and celebrated this month when the Virginia Department of Historic Resources visits the county to dedicate four new state historical markers and to convene its two boards for a quarterly public meeting at Garth Newel Music Center.
Three historic properties in the county also will be nominated to the Virginia Landmarks Register, the state’s official list of important historic sites.
On Wednesday, Sept. 18, DHR director Kathleen S. Kilpatrick and senior agency staff will participate in the dedication of the four historical markers during three separate ceremonies during the day.
Beginning at 11:30 a.m., a dedication will take place for two markers that individually commemorate two of Bath County’s one-time “Rosenwald” schools, T. C. Walker School and Union Hurst School, which served African American students during the era of segregation.
The dedication ceremony will be held at the Bath County Courthouse in Warm Springs.
A historical marker honoring 20th-century businesswoman Lettie Pate Whitehead Evans (1870-1953) will be dedicated and unveiled beginning at 2:30 p.m. at the marker’s location along U.S. 220, just north of St. Luke’s Church in Hot Springs. The historic Garth Newel property also will be commemorated with a state marker.
The sign will be dedicated at 5 p.m. during an unveiling ceremony at the sign’s location at the entrance to Garth Newel Music Center, located on U.S. 220, between Warm Springs and Mitchell-town.
All three dedication ceremonies are open to the public. Virginia’s historical highway marker program is considered the oldest such program in the nation. Today, there are more than 2,200 official state markers.
