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Maryland’s Annual

Preservation & Revitalization Conference!

 

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Don’t miss this opportunity to explore Maryland’s Eastern Shore…

by land and by sea, with the following special tours!

 

THURSDAY, MAY 31

 

There’s History Around Every Corner: Cambridge, Denton, Easton – 9am – 2pm

 

Through the Main Street Maryland program, our towns and cities are experiencing revitalization and growth that allow us to celebrate and build upon our rich past.  The Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development invites you to experience three of the Main Street Maryland communities located on the Eastern Shore.  A revitalized commercial district benefits everyone from residents and community partners, to merchants and financial institutions, to schools and community groups.  See firsthand the economic and community development challenges faced and conquered and those still being addressed as these three Main Streets seek to create and implement community endorsed plans to revitalize, improve, and promote their neighborhoods, economy, and quality of life.

 

Caulks Field: Maryland’s Last Civil War Battlefield – 2:15pm – 3:45pm

 

On the moonlit night of August 30, 1814, British naval forces from HMS Menelaus attacked the Kent County militia in an open field, five miles west of Chestertown, Maryland. The encounter, known as the Battle of Caulk’s Field, remains the only surviving War of 1812 battlefield on the Eastern Shore in its original landscape after 194 years. With the approach of the 1812 bicentennial, it is remarkable that this Maryland landscape has survived at all – yet it will take citizen-soldiers, like those of 1814, to preserve this unique Maryland treasure for another 200 years. Other sites in Maryland in towns such as St. Michael’s, Queenstown and Baltimore have all been lost to development due to lack of understanding of the significance of the War of 1812. The tour will relate the untold story of this last War of 1812 battlefield landscape on the Eastern Shore and suggestions on how we may preserve it.

 

FRIDAY, JUNE 1

 

Shaping History: Economic and Historic Development of the Eastern Shore

 

The history of Queen Anne’s County dates back to the earliest Colonial settlements in Maryland. Settlement of the northern portion of the county began in the 1600s. Early communities grew up around transportation routes, the rivers and streams, and then roads and eventually railroads. Small Towns were centers of economic and social activity and evolved over the years from thriving centers of the tobacco trade to communities boosted by the railroad boom. Explore the public and private aspects of life: St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Church Hill, Dudley’s Chapel and Sudlersville Train Station Museum in Sudlersville, and then Wright’s Chance and Tucker House in Centreville.  

 

Schooner Sultana Sail

 

Up to 32 passengers can sail aboard the 1768 schooner Sultana provides students of all ages with the ultimate classroom for learning about the history and environment of the Chesapeake Bay. On board, passengers travel back in time to the "Age of Sail" and participate in hands-on activities that are interactive, informative and fun. The Schooner Sultana is a replica of a Boston-built merchant vessel that served for four years as the smallest schooner ever in the British Royal Navy. Using the British Admiralty's meticulous documentation of the original Sultana, she has been recreated with outstanding detail and offers all who sail aboard her a terrific glimpse of 18th century seafaring life. Launched in 2001, and based in the historic port of Chestertown, Maryland, Sultana now sails as the "Schoolship of the Chesapeake," embarking nearly 5,000 students for unique educational programs between April and November each year.

 

 

And we can’t wait to see you at the welcoming reception at the Prince Theater, hosted by Mayor Margo Bailey and the Town of Chestertown!

 

JOIN US! 

This promises to be the best conference yet!

 

2007 Conference Sponsors

Preservation Maryland

Maryland Historical Trust

Town of Chestertown

Washington College

Chesapeake Bank and Trust Company

The Christman Company

Kann & Associates, Inc.

Main Street Maryland

Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development

Maryland Department of Planning

Penza Bailey Architects

University of Maryland College Park Program in Historic Preservation

Baltimore Main Streets

David H. Gleason Associates, Inc.

Goucher College

Historic Sites Consortium of Queen Anne’s County

Murphy & Dittenhafer Architects, Inc.

O’Connell & Associates, LLC

Reznick Group

Schamu Machowski Greco

AIABaltimore

Kent County Arts Council

Maryland Coalition of Heritage Areas

Maryland Association of Historic District Commissions

Maryland Association of History Museums