The historic sites gathered through crowdsourced public engagement across the project timeline conveyed a broad and diverse range of historic places significant to African Americans in the Chesapeake Region, including:
- Descendent communities
- Historically African American businesses
- Historically African American Schools, including those created under the Rosenwald school building program
- Places of protest and activism during the Civil Rights Era
- Places associated with beachside recreation during the Jim Crow Era
Historic sites included those that were well-known culturally and popularly, and those that were lesser-known. Sites listed on the National Register of Historic Places or designated as National Historic Landmarks were identified, as well as sites that had received no previous recognition, and did not appear on State Historic Preservation Office GIS systems or databases.
Sites included places with buildings and architecture that expressed the history a participant was seeking to share; places with buildings that had experienced physical changes over time; and places with no buildings or structures at all.
Highlights of the historic sites captured include:
