Showing posts with label preservation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label preservation. Show all posts
Jan 26, 2025

Removal of old bridge piers completed at site of Amtrak’s new Susquehanna River Bridge

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  (Trains) An Amtrak contractor has completed the removal of 10 bridge piers dating to 1866 from the Susquehanna River, a required move in ...
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Nov 26, 2021

Saving History With Sandbags: Climate Change Threatens the Smithsonian

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(NYTimes) ... Eleven palatial Smithsonian museums and galleries form a ring around the National Mall, the grand two-mile park lined with elm...
Apr 3, 2018

'Ma & Pa' historical group to purchase land

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Photo: MDRails (Trains Magazine) MUDDY CREEK FORKS, Pa. – The Maryland & Pennsylvania Railroad Preservation Society, which operates ...
Mar 18, 2016

Aberdeen mayor promises continued city help with restoration of historic B&O station

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(The Aegis) Aberdeen Mayor Patrick McGrady pledged this week that the city would continue to support the ongoing community project to rest...
Nov 6, 2015

Harford officials hope to preserve historic Bel Air house, golf course barn being dismantled

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  (Aegis) Harford County officials and the Historical Society of Harford County are working to move and preserve the historic Joesting-...
May 7, 2013

Budget Cuts Hobble Library of Congress

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  (NYTimes) ... Just as military contractors, air traffic controllers and federal workers are coping with the grim results of a partisa...
Apr 21, 2013

Author Rita Mae Brown talks about preserving history

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  (YDR) York, PA - Author Rita Mae Brown believes the past is prologue. If you don't know where you came from, you don't know w...
Apr 6, 2013

Drawings by a long-dead soldier to assist Camp Security fundraising efforts

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York, PA (YDR) Friends of Camp Security are hoping that a man who's been dead for 183 years will help them raise money to purchase the ...
Mar 3, 2013

York County farm preservation has less money to spend, but a new idea might net more land

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(YDR) York, PA - Sally Barnes and her husband, Casey, don't ever want their land turned into a development, with dozens of houses repla...
Feb 14, 2013

Ma & Pa Railroad artifacts, photos, documents sought by preservation group

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  (Aegis) A new effort is under way to preserve the history of the iconic Maryland & Pennsylvania Railroad that ran through the hea...
Feb 9, 2013

Aged grist mill awaits scarce federal funds

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(Baltimore Sun) PERRYVILLE, Maryland — A 250-year-old grist mill near the mouth of the Susquehanna River has sat mostly vacant since the en...
Jan 16, 2013

Live in a lighthouse on Chesapeake Bay

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(NBC) Wanted: A homeowner with a dedication to history and lighthouses, willing to do a little renovation and, of course, live in a home s...
Dec 29, 2012

Friends of Camp Security need $400,000 by May

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  (YDR) Friends of Camp Security need to raise about $400,000 by May to help pay for a 47-acre property where historians believe a Revo...
Nov 28, 2012

Tiffany-designed church interior a Baltimore landmark candidate

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Louis Comfort Tiffany (Baltimore Sun) More than a few East Coast buildings contain a Tiffany stained-glass window or two. But one struc...
Nov 17, 2012

Stewartstown Railroad line abandoned by federal board

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  (YDR) A federal board ruled Friday that it has granted the abandonment of the 7.4-mile line of the 127-year-old Stewartstown Railroad...
Oct 20, 2012

Harvest Moon Dinner and Auction to Benefit the Harford Land Trust

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(Aegis/Sun) The Harford Land Trust, a nonprofit organization that helps protect farms and forests and create community parks in Harford...
Sep 30, 2012

Historic Navy ships dear to US veterans but costly for museums

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MOUNT PLEASANT, South Carolina (NBC) The Patriots Point Naval and Maritime Museum, a popular tourist spot in South Carolina's Charl...
Sep 22, 2012

Efforts to preserve Stewartstown Railroad focus on fund raising

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(YDR) Friends of the Stewartstown Railroad , an independent group, is pursuing its fund raising effort that began in 2009. More recently, ...
Sep 20, 2012

Maryland House's historic art to be preserved, but won't return

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(Aegis) The Maryland House on I-95 near Aberdeen may be known more for its fast food and bevy of bathrooms than for fine artwork, but its m...
Jul 28, 2012

Group hopes to restore Peale Museum into history, architecture center

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(Baltimore Sun) After being closed to the public for nearly two decades, a new day may be dawning for the Peale Museum on Holliday Stre...