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Historic Context of the Ellicott City Flood
European settlement of the area today known as Ellicott City began as early as 1766 when James Hood built a grist mill along the banks of the Patapsco River. One of the earliest recorded floods in 1768 destroyed the original mill, which his son Benjamin Hood...
Survey: How does Heritage and History Support Maryland Tourism?
The Maryland heritage and cultural tourism network has an opportunity to assure that our priorities are well represented in an current study by the Maryland State Office of Tourism Development, they're calling DestinationNEXT. Here's more about the survey and the...
After Destructive Flood, Help Historic Ellicott City Recover
Like all Marylanders, we here at Preservation Maryland watched with shock and sadness as photos documented the disastrous flooding in Ellicott City, one of our state’s crown jewels of history and heritage. The raging floodwaters, which inundated some buildings to...
Preservation Go: How To Engage Visitors with Pokémon Go
So you work at a historic site and want to take advantage of Pokémon Go, but you have no idea where to start. Maybe you’ve never tried to integrate an app with your exhibits, or perhaps your Pokémon knowledge is so slight you don’t know a Mankey from a Magnemite -...
Historic Road Trip: Maryland’s “Horses and Hounds” Scenic Byway
If you have time on a weekend, and you enjoy historic sites, you absolutely must drive along some of Maryland’s eighteen Scenic Byways each with their own unique sights and stories. One of our Waxter Interns, Ben Israel, decided to explore the Scenic Byway nearest...
Recap: Preservation Summer School 2016
On Thursday, July 21, more than 120 people gathered at the Delaplaine Visual Arts Education Center in Frederick for an amazing day of networking and education. This year’s Summer School was our biggest and best yet with 20 speakers from around the state and the...
Live in History: Gittings-Baldwin House in Gunpowder Falls State Park
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? The Gittings-Baldwin House in Gunpowder Falls State Park near Baldwin is now...
Two Maryland Places to Celebrate Amelia Earhart Day
Each year July 24 is recognized as National Amelia Earhart Day, the first female pilot to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, who was born on that day in 1897. In 1933, Amelia Earhart and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt flew together from Washington, D.C. to...
The Point of Preservation
Preservation Maryland's local partners at the Preservation Alliance of Baltimore County put together a phenomenal Op-Ed on the role, value, and point of preservation -- and have made yet another great case for adaptively reusing the iconic Bel-Loc Diner. Timothy...
Audio: “Preserving and Protecting Ocean City History” on WYPR
The Maryland Humanities Council invited our Director of Communications, Meagan Baco, to read and record an essay on the history and some of the architectural losses of historic Ocean City, Maryland - by natural disasters and by demolition - a place visited by many...
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