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Jan 2, 2013
Parishioners say goodbye to St. George's Spesutia at final service
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(Aegis) The parishioners at St. George's Spesutia Church were not celebrating Christmas on Sunday morning, the Rev. Bill Smith told th...
Jan 10, 2012
Fire chief plans to OK temporary repairs at historic York church
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(York Dispatch) A historic York church once slated for demolition is getting a second chance. York City Fire Chief Steve Buffington said Mon...
Oct 20, 2011
HARB gives Historic York one week to find fix for Trinity United Methodist Church
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(YDR) Historic York has one week to produce a viable plan to save the historic Trinity United Methodist Church at 241 E. King St. The reprie...
Oct 15, 2011
Dembytown
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"In 1917 Harford's decades of sunny, prosperous, and seemingly unending tranquility were abruptly interrupted by America's ent...
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Jul 13, 2011
Emory Grove in Glyndon has been a serene religious retreat since 1868
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(Baltimore Sun) ... This 62-acre, interdenominational religious retreat is composed of 47 small, privately owned cottages, a large open-air ...
Jun 21, 2011
Aberdeen historic church to get new life
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(The Record) The low-key white church dating to 1866 on the corner of West Bel Air Avenue and Law Street has stood vacant for two decades an...
May 1, 2011
Benjamin Latrobe
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(Wikipedia) Benjamin Henry Boneval Latrobe (May 1, 1764 - September 3, 1820) was a British-born American architect best known for his design...
Feb 25, 2011
Local African-American cemeteries topic of program
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(YDR) Small cemeteries dot the York County landscape, some attached to country churches, others small family plots on ancestral farmland. Th...
Oct 17, 2010
Parkton church finds 70 year-old quilt signed by past members on eBay
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(North County News) While Janet Denbow was organizing a tour of four small North County churches built in the late 1800s, a mystery surround...
Sep 18, 2010
Historic Catholic chapel in Cecil County restored
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(Baltimore Sun) Volunteers built a modest chapel in a remote area of northeastern Maryland nearly 200 years ago and dedicated it to the patr...
Aug 8, 2010
Our Lady of the Highway Watches Over Stretch of Interstate Where Massive Pileup Occurred
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(WoCCP) As speeding vehicles dash across Cecil County on I-95, Our Lady of the Highway watches peacefully over motorists zipping past a tran...
Jun 15, 2010
Cokesbury Memorial UMC to Celebrate College's 225th Anniversary
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(Talking about Abingdon, MD) Cokesbury Memorial United Methodist Church is gearing up to celebrate the 225th anniversary of Cokesbury Colle...
Mar 18, 2010
Appeals court rules against rubble landfill near historic community
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In the more than two decades since the fight against a proposed rubble landfill outside Havre de Grace began, some of the most active oppone...
Jan 8, 2010
Mary Clyde Streett, Spenceola Farm owner
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(Baltimore Sun) Mary Clyde Streett, who helped operate a once-thriving Harford County tomato cannery, died of dementia Dec. 26 at the Bel Ai...
Jan 4, 2010
Bittersville church closes after 103 years
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(YDR) After years of decline, Bittersville United Methodist Church in Lower Windsor Township closed last week at age 103. "People just ...
Sep 29, 2009
1907 - The cornerstone is laid at Washington National Cathedral in the U.S. capital
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"Construction lasted 83 years." Continued Photo: Library of Congress
Sep 18, 2009
A look at historic Harford sanctuaries
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(Aegis) - When the writing team of Henry Peden Jr. and Jack Shagena Jr. did research on their first four books in the Harford County’s Rural...
Aug 19, 2009
Amish paper succeeds the old-fashioned way
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(MSNBC) - ... "People call The Budget the Amish Internet," Rathbun says. "It's non-electric, it's on paper, but it...
Aug 15, 2009
August 15, 1790: John Carroll Becomes First Bishop of Baltimore
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(LoC) - On August 15, 1790, John Carroll became the first bishop of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States. The son of a wealthy Cat...
Aug 13, 2009
Historic black church may be reborn as museum
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(Baltimore Sun) - The 19th-century laborers pooled their money and did what they could to build this biscuit box of a church along Offutt Ro...
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