Preservation Maryland

Preservation Maryland applauds Senate President Bill Ferguson and House Speaker Adrienne Jones for the creation of the new State Park Investment Commission. With visitorship reaching all-time highs in the last year, there has also been an unprecedented strain on the current state parks and their resources. Chaired by former Governor Parris N. Glendenning, the new commission will be tasked with making recommendations for improvements of current parks and the need for new parks in “recreational deserts.”

The Olympic Games are upon us and as the world turns its sights on Tokyo, Preservation Maryland wants to tell you about “the most amazing gold-medal story in Olympic history” – the story of Robert Garrett, a native Marylander and a former president of Preservation Maryland, who took home gold in the first modern Olympics in 1896. You have to read it to believe it!

In an Executive Order announced earlier this year, Governor Larry Hogan established the Maryland Semiquincentennial Commission to coordinate the commemoration and observance of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, Revolutionary War, and founding of the United States. In honor of the 4th of July, we are again sharing the news and Preservation Maryland’s role as one of the statewide nonprofits to be represented on the commission.