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Six-to-Fix Update: Documenting Malone’s Church in Dorchester County

Six-to-Fix Update: Documenting Malone’s Church in Dorchester County

Using measurements gathered during a November workday, Preservation Maryland recently completed measured architectural drawings of the historic Malone's Church deep in Dorchester County. The church is part of a touchstone in the African American community and a final...

Preservation Priorities for this Maryland Legislative Session

Today marks the start of the 438th Session of the Maryland General Assembly and Preservation Maryland is poised to continue to be the voice of historic preservation in Annapolis from this day forward through the end of session. We have a full slate of priorities in...

Heritage Fund Grants Awarded to Ten More Deserving and Unique Projects

Heritage Fund Grants Awarded to Ten More Deserving and Unique Projects

Since 1997, the Heritage Fund grant program has distributed over a million dollars in direct support for historic preservation projects in Maryland! This November, the selection committee awarded nearly $150,000 to ten deserving and unique projects across the state....

Video: Six-to-Fix Impact Report

Preservation Maryland’s Six-to-Fix program began with a simple question: Could we do more to help save threatened history across our state? Update: On the afternoon of May 27, 2018, Ellicott City, Maryland endured yet another devastating flood — the second time in...

Six-to-Fix Update: New Major Projects Revealed at Benefit Event

Six-to-Fix Update: New Major Projects Revealed at Benefit Event

On Thursday, October 19, 2017, Preservation Maryland hosted its annual Six-to-Fix Benefit to support the award winning program. Now in its third year, the program has amassed a collection of over 18 distinct and unique projects – each with their own set of challenges...

Video: Coalition to Protect Maryland Burial Sites Conference

Video: Coalition to Protect Maryland Burial Sites Conference

The Coalition to Protect Maryland Burial Sites annual conference brought over 60 attendees to Anne Arundel County to hear about current events, like the response to the vandalized Mount Carmel in Philadelphia and the latest in conservation technologies. The sessions...

Best of Maryland: Dr. G. Ray Thompson of Salisbury University

Dr. G. Ray Thompson dedicated his professional life to the preservation of buildings and artifacts of the Eastern Shore and been a professor and mentor at Salisbury University for 44 years. Upon his recent retirement, Preservation Maryland will recognize Dr. Thompson...

Best of Maryland: “Laboring Sons Memorial Ground” Documentary

Best of Maryland: “Laboring Sons Memorial Ground” Documentary

The City of Frederick Audio Visual Department produced a documentary on Laboring Sons Memorial Ground that shares the story of the African American cemetery that pre-dates the Civil War, but was bulldozed to make way for a City park. Fifty years after the park was...

Pencil in these Four Maryland History Tours Now

Pencil in these Four Maryland History Tours Now

Preservation Maryland is excited to announce our tour schedule. This year, our tours will take you from a Civil War-era homestead, to a beach community founded by the son of Frederick Douglass, through the water of Antietam Creek, and the gravestones of Southern...

Testimony: Tolson’s Chapel Tells a Story of Struggle and Courage

Testimony: Tolson’s Chapel Tells a Story of Struggle and Courage

At the March hearing date of HB1513 that would establish a base-level of funding for historic preservation grants in Maryland, Preservation Maryland was joined by amazing colleagues from across the state, including Zunny Miller-Matema of Friends of Tolson's Chapel....

Heritage Fund Grant Recipients of 2016

Since it's creation, the Heritage Fund has supported hundreds of local and regional historic preservation, community development, and educational projects in Maryland with nearly $1 million of financial support. Along with our partners, the Maryland Historical Trust,...

Six-to-Fix Workshop: “How to Protect your Local Burial Grounds”

With the inclusion of Maryland's sacred burial places as a statewide focus for Preservation Maryland's Six-to-Fix program in the coming year, we are proud to continue our partnership with the Coalition for the Protection of Maryland's Burial Sites by sponsoring their...

Now is the Time: Giving Tuesday Redux

Preservation Maryland is the first and foremost historic preservation organization in Maryland. We work to bring technical assistance, capacity building, and economic revitalization to communities across the state - and we want to show you. Earlier this month, we hit...

Six-to-Fix Update: Lending a Hand to Document Historic Cemeteries

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...

New Website for the Coalition to Protect Maryland Burial Sites

New Website for the Coalition to Protect Maryland Burial Sites

Some of the most sacred sites in Maryland are in impending danger due to environmental factors as well as the passage of time. Through our intensive and impactful Six-to-Fix program, Preservation Maryland will work with the Coalition to Protect Maryland Burial Sites...

Pleasant View: From Civil War to Civil Rights

Pleasant View: From Civil War to Civil Rights

The Pleasant View Historic Site is comprised of the Quince Orchard Colored School, the Pleasant View Methodist Episcopal Church, and the Pleasant View Cemetery. The buildings on this site are monuments to the story of how during segregation African Americans utilized...

Rosenwald Schools: A Great Partnership for Education

Rosenwald Schools: A Great Partnership for Education

The Rosenwald School building program played a prominent and pivotal role in the education of African Americans in the early 20th century. A result of a partnership between Booker T. Washington of Tuskegee Institute and Julius Rosenwald, President of Sears, Roebuck...

Endangered: Ceres Bethel AME Church

The Ceres Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church located outside of Burkittsville in Frederick County was listed as an Endangered Maryland site in 2014. HISTORY The Ceres Bethel African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church sits just outside the boundaries of the...

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