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Celebrating Wilkes-Barre’s Walkitecture Tour
We conclude our Preservation Month celebration of the 2021 Community Initiative Award winners in the Diamond City. Many may not think the intersection of public health and historic preservation is...
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See a cool building? Tell us about it with PA-SHARE!
Good morning fellow Pennsylvanians, regular visitors, and honored guests! In your travels throughout our beautiful Commonwealth, have you stumbled across a building so magnificent you had no...
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Community Archaeology at Midland Cemetery
Last fall the State Museum of Pennsylvania hosted their annual workshop in archaeology entitled Hidden Stories: Uncovering African American History through Archaeology and Community Engagement. The...
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SHPO Staff Explore Lackawanna County
My SHPO colleagues and I, just like the rest of the world, are continuing to emerge from our COVID cocoons. We’ve been getting out and about more each month but still find ourselves wanting to be...
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Exciting news for the President Pumping Engine House
Readers in the Lehigh Valley saw some interesting news stories throughout the month of January as the one of the boilers from the Ueberroth Zinc Mine Historic District (1995RE50357) was removed from...
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Celebrating Preservation Month with the 2022 Community Initiative Award Winners
What better time of year than National Historic Preservation Month to announce the latest round of PA SHPO’s Community Initiative Award winners! The four recipients and their projects showcase a range...
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Celebrating the Blairsville Area Underground Railroad
This week’s 2022 Community Initiative Award winner spotlight is on the Blairsville Underground Railroad organization in Blairsville, Indiana County. Blairsville was laid out in the early 19th century...
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Celebrating Concord Township and the Spring Valley AME Church
This week’s 2022 Community Initiative Award winner spotlight is on Concord Township’s preservation of the Spring Valley AME Church in Delaware County. This project in Delaware County caught the eagle...
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Celebrating Hay Creek Valley Historical Association
As we wrap up National Historic Preservation Month, we are highlighting the last of our 2022 Community Initiative Award winners. In this week’s post, we talked with Mark Zerr, Executive Director of the...
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#PreservAtionHappens at the Local Level with CLG Grants
Each year, the PA SHPO awards grants to the Commonwealth’s Certified Local Governments (CLG) for the purpose of advancing local historic preservation activities. Through a competitive application...
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Advancing Black Preservation to Sustain Black Neighborhoods with The Friends...
As part of Black History Month, we invited Friends of the Tanner House – which we first introduced to our readers in this post – to talk about strategies for advancing Black heritage site preservation...
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How Women Shaped Preservation in Pennsylvania
Several years ago, my colleagues and I at the PA SHPO compiled a history of preservation achievements in Pennsylvania. This interesting trek through the preservation timeline was published in the...
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