Tinner Hill Heritage Foundation is working with a number of partners to create formal and informal learning materials and programming that support students and families in the area and the region. The goal is to develop models for educational materials and programming that can be replicated throughout the country. On Feb. 21, 2009 we partnered with VA Tech and Primary Source Learning to present a day long teachers institute using the collections of Tinner Hill and the Library of Congress for teachers to meet Virginia Standards of learning using primary source materials and local history.
Tinner Hill Heritage Foundation is working with the City of Falls Church, Fairfax County and the Board of Supervisors the Northern Virginia Regional Park Authority, Virginia Tech Landscape Design Program to develop a landscape design for the Tinner Hill 1/2 acre site that will commemorate and celebrate the civil rights...
Read MoreWe were part of a city wide task force charged with making recommendations for implementing Falls Church City as an arts and cultural district. Barb Cram and Nikki Graves Henderson is co-chair for CATCH, accronym for City of Arts, Theatre, Culture and History, the Humanities Council of Falls Church,...
Read MoreTinner Hill Historic Sites are the subject of a semester long Design Studio for Masters and Doctoral level students of the Urban Affairs and Planning Program at Virginia Tech's Alexandria Campus, which is part of the College of Architecture and Urban Studies, at Virginia Tech.
Read MoreThe Tinner Hill Foundation is developing plans to create a interpretive site that will commemorate the location of the first rural branch of the NAACP and provide information about the early civil rights movement in Northern Virginia. The primary purpose of the historic site is to powerfully and effectively..
Read MoreTinner Hill Heritage Foundation is working with the City of Falls Church, Fairfax County and the Board of Supervisors the Northern Virginia Regional Park Authority, Virginia Tech Landscape Design Program to develop a landscape design for the Tinner Hill 1/2 acre site that will commemorate and celebrate the civil rights...
Read MoreA Radiant Spirit; the Journey of Mary Ellen Henderson. On September 18, 2005, a new middle school in Falls Church, Virginia was named in honor of educator and civil rights pioneer, Mary Ellen Henderson. Tinner Hill Heritage Foundation (THHF) , a non-profit organization, whose mission is to preserve and promote the history...
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