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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.