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Preservation Maryland Awarded Grant for Historic Jones Falls Signage
Preservation Maryland is the recipient of Heritage Investment grant funds from the Baltimore National Heritage Area to work with our partners in the Hampden neighborhood of Baltimore to research, design, and produce wayfinding and interpretive signage along the Jones...
Donate today, Giving Tuesday, to Help Save Maryland Heritage
Preservation Maryland helps save the places in Maryland that matter...and our Giving Tuesday Great Maryland Road Trip team is going to prove it to you! Nicholas Redding, our Executive Director, with Meagan Baco, Elly Colmers Cowan, and Michelle Eshelman, will...
Remembering the Fallen: Antietam National Battlefield Memorial Illumination
The Battle of Antietam remains the bloodiest one-day battle on American soil. On September 17, 1862, 23,000 soldiers became casualties in the first major Confederate attack on the Union during the Civil War. Every year, the National Park Service honors their sacrifice...
Giving Tuesday and the Great Maryland Road Trip
Much like there's Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, and Cyber Monday, non-profits have organized a special day to support deserving projects and causes called Giving Tuesday. This year, Preservation Maryland is hitting the road to make the case to our fellow...
Support Preservation Maryland through AmazonSmile
The internet's shopping mall, Amazon.com brings in over 100 billion dollars of revenue each year, and there's a way for non-profit organizations to tap into their e-commerce success through the AmazonSmile Foundation that donates back .5% of sales to a cause of your...
Six-to-Fix Update: Interview with the Ellicott City Preservation Resource Center
Marylanders responded immediately and generously to help historic Ellicott City recover from a devastating flood down Main Street. With the funds raised Preservation Maryland put boots-on-the-ground in the form of a Preservation Resource Center to provide direct,...
Preservation Maryland to Speak at inaugural Grow Maryland Summit
Grow Maryland is a new non-profit that formed to support small and value-added food producers, as well as, agritourism throughout Maryland. Partnering with the Rural Maryland Council, they will host the first ever Grow Maryland Summit this December to bring together...
Six-to-Fix Update: Initial Architecture and Engineering Assesments at Shafer Farm
As part of our Six-to-Fix program, Preservation Maryland brought together a renowned group of engineering, construction, and architecture experts to tour and assess the ca. 1840 Shafer Farm in Burkittsville, Maryland. Their expertise will help guide immediate repair...
Six-to-Fix Update: Lending a Hand to Document Historic Cemeteries
Preservation Maryland staff joined the Patapsco Heritage Greenway Heritage Area during their volunteer clean-up at Oella Cemetery in Catonsville in mid-November. Here's what we learned and how we're going to apply it to our Six-to-Fix work: Lending a hand to our...
Maryland Music: Colonial Music in St. Mary’s City, Maryland 1634-1776
With the 1634 arrival of two ships, The Ark and The Dove, on the shores of a tribal tributary of the Potomac River, near the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay, the fourth Colony in North America was founded as a Baroque planned settlement called St. Mary’s City. Who were...
Field Report: Final Observations on Anne Arundel County Archaeology Internship
Preservation Maryland's mission includes the discovery and protection of archaeological sites and resources in Maryland, and through the Waxter Internship program, we supported Matthew Nickelson's work in Anne Arundel County. These are some of his final observations:...
Marking Veterans Day in Maryland
Across the country, Veterans Day is a day to acknowledge, thank, and remember, the women and men who have served to protect the United State. It is celebrated every 11th of November, and this year we're honored to provide you here with four events around Maryland in...
Six-to-Fix Update: After the Flood in Ellicott City
In the weeks since Preservation Maryland opened our Preservation Resource Center in Ellicott City, we have been actively involved in providing on-the-ground direct technical assistance to dozens of property owners. The office, which is located in the visitor’s center...
50 Years of Preservation: A Call to Action
Fifty years ago, with the stroke of a pen, President Johnson authorized a new framework for saving historic places. The National Historic Preservation Act, which he signed into law on October 15, 1966, gave voice, purpose and structure to our movement. The challenges...
Twenty-Four Maryland Counties in Twenty-Four Months
In this first of a series of blog posts, Preservation Maryland Board Vice President Diane Caslow will provide a travelogue of her journey across the state to visit some of Maryland's most historic places in all twenty-four counties over the next twenty-four...
Be a Preservation Voter
We at Preservation Maryland advocate for protecting our heritage. In order for us to be successful, we need to elect legislators who understand the importance of our history as we look towards the future. Over this election cycle, we have heard where the candidates...
What Maryland Looked Like the Last Time the Cubs Won the World Series
On November 2, 2016, the Chicago Cubs have recently made baseball history by ending the longest ever championship drought by winning the World Series after 108 years. In 1908 there were 46 U.S. states, Thomas Edison was still alive, and the FM radio, sliced bread, and...
Telling the African American Story in Maryland
Some of the very first people to arrive to the land that would be come Maryland in 1634 were of African descent. In Maryland, there are many cultural landscapes and historic sites that hold and interpret the varied history of African Americans from slavery and war to...
Heritage Fund Highlight: Swains Lockhouse on the C&O Canal
In October 2015, Preservation Maryland presented the C&O Canal Trust with a Heritage Fund grant to assist in creative marketing and fundraising strategies in support of the rehabilitation of the Swains Lockhouse in Potomoc, MD. As part of that grant, the C&O...
Workshop Recap: Heart of the Civil War Heritage Area’s “Catching Visitors with Pokémon Go”
The Heart of the Civil War Heritage Area’s second Exploring Engagement workshop, which took place at the Washington County Museum of Fine Arts in October 2016, examined how museums, parks, and historic sites can leverage the popular game to bring in new (and younger) visitors.
New Website for the Coalition to Protect Maryland Burial Sites
Some of the most sacred sites in Maryland are in impending danger due to environmental factors as well as the passage of time. Through our intensive and impactful Six-to-Fix program, Preservation Maryland will work with the Coalition to Protect Maryland Burial Sites...
Historic Phillips Packing Plant Open to New Tenants
Our partners at the Eastern Shore Land Conservancy and Cross Street Partners are collaborating on a major rehabilitation project, that once complete, will revitalize the Cannery District of Cambridge, MD with 60,000 square feet of mixed-use space in a historic...
Maryland State Historic Tax Credit Projects
Maryland has a competitive state historic tax credit application program, now known as the Heritage Structure Rehabilitation Tax Credit. Rehabilitation projects are selected based on merit and adherence to the Secretary of the Interior's Standards and awarded tax...
From the Lab: Comparing Stone Tools in Anne Arundel County
As the days of summer fade away and fall approaches, it can only mean one thing for an archaeologist - lab work. It's an inevitable part of the process and advances the discoveries of fieldwork into an analytical hypothesis about the way that humans may have lived...
Preservation Group Announces Effort to Preserve Six Important Places Across Maryland
Preservation Maryland’s class of 2016 Six-to-Fix projects were revealed to a packed room on Thursday, October 13th at the Maryland Zoo’s historic Mansion House. Six-to-Fix, an innovative impact-focused program, is designed to help provide real solutions to big...
A Maryland Favorite With A Long History: Hasty Pudding
For centuries, puddings have been a staple in the English diet, and when the English colonists settled in America, they brought their love of puddings with them. One of the most popular pudding recipes from colonial America was the Hasty Pudding, named for how easy it...
Tour Recap: Behind the Scenes at the Conowingo Dam
Last weekend, on October 1st, Preservation Maryland members and supporters were treated to a behind-the-scenes tour at the Conowingo Dam, a hydroelectric dam in the lower Susquehanna River situated between Cecil and Howard counties. Special thanks to Exelon, current...
Audio: Preservation Maryland and “Historic Ellicott City Rebuilds” on WYPR
Preservation Maryland's Executive Director Nicholas Redding spoke with Sheila Kast from WYPR 88.1fm on October 7, 2016 about the preservation-sensitive recovery and rebuilding efforts happening in historic Ellicott City since the July 2016 flood. He was joined by...
Live in History: Baxter Farm in the Monacacy National Resources Management Area
Does living in a historic house located within one of Maryland’s scenic State Parks, Natural Resource Management Areas or other protected state lands sound like a dream come true? Several properties are now available through Maryland’s Resident Curatorship Program:...
Report Highlights Need For Historic Preservation Funding in Maryland
Preservation requires a wide variety of financial and technical resources to save historic places. The availability of those resources was the focus of a wide-ranging report issued by the Maryland Historical Trust (MHT), the state agency charged with overseeing...
Events
Preservation Maryland participates in and hosts many events in and around Maryland. Take a look at our upcoming events to see where we’ll be next.