Our Mission
Our
purpose is to preserve the history and culture of Surry County and
interpret it to the community.
Our business is to preserve and maintain historic sites with research,
programs, publishing, collection of documents and photographs, the
identification, cataloging and labeling of sites, maintenance of
archives, and cooperation with other organizations.
Our heritage and community values are worth saving and passing along. We
are dedicated to the integrity and accuracy of research and
documentation, and to enabling people to appreciate what life in the
past was like.
We wish to address and prevent the missing of the local history by our
children, the neglect and loss of sites, and any ignorance of local
traditions and history.
What makes us unique is our interest in local history, our promotion of
scholarship and investigation, our interpretation of history in
authentic period settings, and our leadership in Surry County in
identifying and preserving historical sites.
We do this to benefit future generations, visitors and their patrons,
interested citizens, teachers and their students, and all people with
roots in Surry County.
