Historic Preservation Committee Launches

This Spring, Rosie the Riveter Trust launched a committee to elevate the Trust and Park’s efforts to preserve WWII home front sites.

The new Historic Preservation Committee will support the community stewardship of the Rosie the Riveter/ WWII Home Front National Historical Park sites, buildings, and other Richmond home front sites that convey the stories of social and cultural change that began or accelerated during the home front mobilization.

The committee has started with an assessment of Richmond’s home front sites to gauge the level of risk each site faces and set priorities for preservation measures. With this information, the committee hopes to bring key partners together to safeguard and restore places that were important to the home front, work with partners to provide greater access to these places, and promote all the sites that the Park encompasses.

In addition to Trust Board members’ participation and the National Park Service, the committee is actively recruiting community members who can bring expertise or experience in historic preservation, architecture, City of Richmond knowledge, real estate or significant interest in preservation, as well as individuals with influence to support fundraising. For more information, contact Sarah Pritchard at sarah@rosietheriveter.org