Welcome to Roots Run Deep. The Shenandoah Valley Back Heritage Project created self-guided driving or walking tours featuring historic African American churches, burial grounds, businesses and schools and more. Local historians, educators, and members of the community assisted in creating our tours. It is critical to tell the full history by recovering, preserving and sharing our findings. We divided the Shenandoah Valley into regions by county. As of April 29, 2023 we will have funded and created tours for half of the Valley. We still have more to cover.
Each tour has a tour booklet that are available for download digitally here on our website. All booklets include addresses, directions from each site, photos and descriptions of each site. You will find the tour booklets for our tours by clicking on them under the Tours tab above. Click on the tour name to go to that tour's page where a tour booklet can be found. A list of tour sites also pops up to the right of each tour. Examples: Here is the link to the Frederick Tour Frederick County . And here is a link to Frederick Tour site Belle Grove Belle Grove .
Each tour has a tour booklet that are available for download digitally here on our website. All booklets include addresses, directions from each site, photos and descriptions of each site. You will find the tour booklets for our tours by clicking on them under the Tours tab above. Click on the tour name to go to that tour's page where a tour booklet can be found. A list of tour sites also pops up to the right of each tour. Examples: Here is the link to the Frederick Tour Frederick County . And here is a link to Frederick Tour site Belle Grove Belle Grove .
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Photos from our Roots Run Deep Tour Launch Events on Saturday, April 29th, 2023
These tours are possible through the generous financial support of the following: National Trust for Historic Preservation’s Telling the Full History Preservation Fund, with support from National Endowment for the Humanities. (Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this publication do not necessarily represent those of the National Trust or the National Endowment for the Humanities.) Virginia Humanities SHARP grant, The Jerome L. Greene Foundation, in memory of Sister Judith Brown, as recommended by Karen Brooks Hopkins, Crescent Cities Charities, and Special thanks to the Friends of the SVBHP for their monthly donations.
