The Maryland Inventory of Cemeteries and Burial Sites Workgroup has released a draft report outlining recommendations to improve how the state documents and preserves cemeteries, burial groups, and related sites. Public feedback is welcome and encouraged to ensure the...
Join Preservation Maryland at the Carroll County Public Library - Finksburg Branch, on Monday, March 17, 2025, at 6:00 PM for Preservation Basics. During this presentation, Christiana Limniatis, Preservation Maryland's Program & Outreach Manager, will provide an...
Preservation Maryland, Historic Annapolis, and the Maryland Center for History and Culture joined forces on March 25th at St. Anne’s Cemetery in Annapolis Md. to clean historic grave markers. Preservation Maryland has led cemetery preservation workshops across the...
Preservation Maryland and The Campaign for Historic Trades were joined by the Maryland Park Service and the National Park Service at a cemetery preservation day at the Howard Family Cemetery in Patuxent River State Park in Montgomery County. The team cleaned the...
Cemeteries, like historic buildings and landscapes, provide critical connections between our past and future. This Giving Tuesday, please consider supporting our Cemetery Preservation Workshop series so we have the capacity to educate more future preservationists,...
Cemeteries, like historic buildings and landscapes, provide critical connections between our past and future. Cemeteries literally contain the physical remnants – human remains – of our past. Cemeteries are evocative and powerful places that speak to descendants and...
Preservation Maryland and our program, The Campaign for Historic Trades, are hosting cemetery preservation workshops across the state, where participants learn the basic preservation techniques of caring for a cemetery. The first workshop will take place this...
Preservation Maryland and The Campaign for Historic Trades seek applicants for the Cemetery Preservation Workshop Coordinator position. Position: Cemetery Preservation Workshop Coordinator Position Description: This is a part-time, 20-hours-per-week, 9-month term,...
Individual efforts, often led by small organizations and volunteers are one of the most common ways that historic cemeteries are maintained and preserved. Yet, there are still hidden and undocumented burial grounds - creating a challenge at the regional and statewide...
Each year, the Coalition to Protect Maryland Burial Sites hosts a statewide conference to provide relevant resources and engaging new research to all those interested in the history and preservation of cemeteries in Maryland. Preservation Maryland is pleased to...
As part of the organization's on-going work to protect Maryland's historic cemeteries, Preservation Maryland will offer public cemetery documentation workshops this winter. Working with the Maryland Department of Transportation State Highway Administration,...
Preservation Maryland actively supports the documentation and preservation of Maryland's sacred burial sites and will co-host a free cemetery documentation training workshop in Anne Arundel County later this month. Recently, Preservation Maryland has worked to...
Preservation Maryland and the State Highway Administration have entered into a partnership to document historic cemeteries across the state using a new mobile app. Attendees to the Old Line State Summit, on Wednesday, July 24, 2019 in Frederick, will have the...
Working with the Maryland Department of Transportation and the State Highway Administration, Preservation Maryland has embarked on an ambitious project to document 100 cemeteries and burial sites across the state. Last month, Preservation Maryland began to document...
The intact cultural landscape of the Mt. Hope Baptist Church and Cemetery in Charles County was the focus of a recent feature about forgotten cemeteries by WUSA Channel 9. Reporter John Henry brought to a large audience the area's important African American history...
Through a Six-to-Fix partnership, Preservation Maryland is pleased to offer video recordings of the annual conference of the Coalition to Protect Maryland Burial Sites that was was held on Saturday, May 5, 2018 at the Shepard-Pratt Conference Center in Baltimore...
On the heels of new Montgomery County legislation that supports the inventory and protection of the County's burial sites, Montgomery Preservation, Inc, will kick-off a volunteer-led effort to update existing records across the County. The current Cemetery Inventory...
Preservation Maryland convened dozens of volunteers at the historic Mt. Hope Baptist Church in Charles County this October for a volunteer workday addressing church history, cemetery conservation, archaeology, and historic preservation projects. Building on a...
On Tuesday, October 31, 2017, the Montgomery County Council adopted legislation to protect burial sites within the County as advocated for and reported by the Coalition to Protect Maryland Burial Sites. On October 31, the Montgomery County Council unanimously enacted...
In early June 2017, vandals damaged dozens of historic gravestones in the cemetery of St. Thomas Episcopal Church in Upper Marlboro, Maryland. The congregation is now reaching out to preservationists and the community to help make the needed repairs. Prince George's...
When you picture a historic cemetery, you probably imagine a place that's calm and serene...when you picture cemetery preservation, the fact is that the work done by folks like our guest this week Eileen McGuckian, of the Coalition to Protect Maryland Burial Sites,...
Preservation Maryland is proud to partner with the Coalition to Protect Maryland Burial Sites to commence their statewide conference and annual meeting on the topic of Maryland's historic cemeteries including sessions from the National Park Service and a focus on...
Brunswick, located in Frederick County, has a legacy as a town instrumental to American transportation history with busy canals and fast railroads fueled by the residents of the town. In early 2015, the City of Brunswick contacted Preservation Maryland with a request...
It's been almost three months since the Maryland Liberty Tree Project put its first sapling in the ground at the William Paca House in Annapolis, and the project has been moving steadily across the state ever since. With Maryland's 250th anniversary year in full...
Preservation Maryland is proud to announce the recipients of the 2026 Heritage Fund grants, a cooperative effort between Preservation Maryland and the Maryland Historical Trust. The Heritage Fund supports projects that protect and celebrate the historic places,...
On May 15, 2026 Maryland Department of Natural Resources officially dedicated a new state park that preserves and interprets one of the most powerful stories of freedom, resilience, and Black leadership in our state’s history. Freedman’s State Park now protects...
The Maryland Liberty Tree project is a statewide commemorative project marking the 250th Anniversary of American Independence. Using seedlings grown from the only surviving genetically identical Liberty Tree scion in the United States—descended from Maryland’s...
In late June of 1863, nearly 150,000 soldiers moved through the narrow and dusty roads of Maryland towards the devastating clash at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, just a few miles north of the Mason-Dixon line. While the battle unfolded on the fields surrounding...
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Catoctin Furnace Historical Society acquires African American Cemetery; Plans to Give to State Park After more than 7 years of effort, the Catoctin Furnace Historical Society has finalized the purchase of the 1.9-acre cemetery property with grant support. Members of...
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September 30 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pmPreservation 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.