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03/25/2023
By Preservation Maryland

Maryland Day: A Roundup of the Most Interesting Historic Spots in Each County

Maryland Day is the anniversary of when the first European settlers landed in Maryland. They disembarked from ships called the Ark and the Dove and landed on St. Clement’s Island in St. Mary’s County on March 25th, 1634. Marylanders began celebrating the anniversary in 1903 when the State Board of Education declared the day an important one in Maryland’s history. In 1916, Maryland Day became a legal state holiday. Today Preservation Maryland is celebrating Maryland Day by featuring our state’s 23 counties and one independent city. Read below for a unique historic place to visit in each county.

03/14/2023
By Preservation Maryland

Celebrate National Pi(e) Day with a Maryland Classic Pie: Eastern Shore White Potato

Apple, key lime, and pumpkin get all the love. Today, on National Pi(e) Day, why not celebrate with a Maryland classic: White Potato Pie! The origins of the White Potato Pie are murky, with some recipes noting that it was a poor man’s dessert, created by those who could not afford high-class ingredients. Joyce White, a culinary historian and consultant – who is currently leading The Great Maryland Recipe Hunt initiative – suspects this pie has its origins in Maryland’s agricultural history.

02/20/2023
By Preservation Maryland

Maryland Icon: Frederick Douglass

Few names conjure up as much respect, admiration or praise as that of Frederick Douglass. On the anniversary of his death in 1895, Preservation Maryland is proud to remember the contributions of one the state’s most famous citizens.

Our Heart Belongs to History: Make a Heartbomb with Our Origami Pattern & Paper

02/01/2022
By Preservation Maryland

There is no question that preservationists put their heart into their work and communities. Now that we’re officially in the month of love, we encourage you to make an origami heart with our special edition phoenix origami paper.

we’re bringing back our popular “love bomb” project for the month of february!

Nicholas Redding at the Historic Preservation Training Center, MD, 2021.

Here we offer a simple at-home project to create an origami heart just in time for Valentine’s Day. We want to see how you use your heartbombs this year! Be sure to tag or mention Preservation Maryland on social media @preservationMD on Facebook, @PreservationMaryland on Instagram , and @PreservationMD on Twitter and use #preservemd. Bring it by your favorite historic site, building, community, take a selfie with a fellow history lover or even solo to show your love for Maryland.

Download the Preservation Maryland origami pattern here

MORE ABOUT PRESERVATION & VALENTINE’S DAY

Have you heard of the preservation term, “heartbombing”? Reinvigorated recently by young preservation groups across the country, heartbombing is the simple act of declaring your love for at-risk historic properties with a valentine of their own. Did you know that the heartbomb may have been invented in Rockville, Maryland in the 1990s? In 1993, when a likely buyer of the ca. 1895 Wire Hardware building had plans to gut the interior, Peerless Rockville, a regional preservation non-profit, brought a lawsuit to defend its right-of first-refusal to purchase the building—ensuring its preservation. Soon after, the organization publicly kickstarted an Emergency Repair Fund with a gigantic heart in the storefront window, declaring “Our Hearts Belong to Wire.”

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