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Baltimore itself is a state hub, with 199 pins out of the 270 total for the state within the city limits.

The paintings are coming to brick walls on either side of the Howard County Welcome Center and will honor the town's past and present.

Maryland officials are moving forward with a $27.5 million plan to demolish about 35 structures in the closed Baltimore City Detention Center.

As an attorney, political operative and much more, Larry Gibson has influenced the political landscape of Baltimore and elsewhere, shaped the careers of many.

Maryland House of Delegates Speaker Adrienne Jones wants a plaque removed from the State House that pays tribute to both sides of the Civil War.

The Wayside Cross in Towson will be rededicated Sunday after a restoration with a ceremony and time capsule burial.

Maryland Historical Trust officials have removed a historical marker at Fort Garrison in Stevenson after they received complaints of the use of the term "hostile Indians" on the sign.

The Carroll County Board of Commissioners on Thursday approved two spending packages, totaling $5.3 million, for asphalt paving and for roof replacements at the Union Mills Homestead.

Unglesbee proposed at Hampstead’s March 12 meeting to restore the cemetery where the town’s founding family is buried. He said it would help residents take pride in their community and Councilman Wayne Thomas noted historical attractions are important for education. They can also bring in tourists.

Hampstead Councilman David Unglesbee has submitted an application to the State’s Department of Planning’s Historical Trust to commemorate U.S. President Calvin Coolidge stopping at the Hampstead Train Station — a relic of the town’s rich railroad past.

Town of Bel Air leaders celebrated their recent win of a Preservation Award from the Maryland Historical Trust honoring the town's Armory Marketplace business incubator.

Plans to develop a plot of land in Baltimore's Westfield neighborhood has residents organizing to protect an old graveyard they say is threatened by the project.

Maryland’s top political leaders are supporting a plan to rename the State House’s main press work area in honor of the five employees who were killed at The Capital newspaper office last year.

The Howard County Historical Society’s 42nd Annual Holiday House Tour will depart at 1 p.m. Dec. 9 from Mount Hebron High School, 9440 Old Frederick Road in Ellicott City. Information: hchsmd.org.

In preparation of a county-mandated community input meeting Dec. 20 for a proposed infill development in Catonsville, a group of about 30 residents from the Ingleside neighborhood met informally on Thursday with developers to ask questions and voice concerns.

The report was paid by Preservation Maryland, a nonprofit that fears the county's plan will tarnish the essence of the town.

The events not to miss in Howard County for October include the Mid-Atlantic Tiny House Expo, Opus Merriweather and more.

The Howard County Council approved two bills Monday night to help pay for the removal of 19 buildings in historic Ellicott City, which has been ravaged by floods twice since 2016.

Wilderness Farm, the 32nd annual Decorator Show House of Historic Ellicott City Inc., will be open to the public Sept. 21 to Oct. 21.

Preservation Maryland is also concerned demolishing buildings in Ellicott City could lead to the town’s removal from the National Register of Historic Places, thereby limiting tax credits and other incentives available for the community.

In the year since four Baltimore Confederate statues were removed, in dramatic, middle-of-the-night fashion, what has changed?

On Saturday, August 4, 2018, the Cultural Center at the Opera House (Opera House) will celebrate its first anniversary with a daylong celebration.

Work is underway to add the historic Annapolis post office to the complex of state offices and tunnels in the heart of Annapolis.

The Union Mills Homestead will soon be able to do a comprehensive repair of its leaking Shriver Grist Mill flume with a grant from the Maryland Historical Trust. The $96,000 grant was officially awarded to the homestead at a meeting in Easton Tuesday afternoon under the Historic Preservation...

Maryland has taken steps to preserve its history but there's more to be done.

Two historic sites in Anne Arundel County, the Hammond-Harwood house in Annapolis and the Thomas Point Shoal Lighthouse, will each receive state-funded grants of $100,000 to help with preservation efforts.

Saints Stephen and James Evangelical Lutheran Church, which has operated in one form or another at the corner of Hanover and Hamburg streets in South Baltimore for 166 years, will hold its final service Sunday.

A model of Aberdeen's historic B&O train station is on sale now for $10 each to raise funds to support restoration efforts.

Some Westminster home and property owners, those whose property falls within the Westminster National Register District could be be eligible for special federal, state and local tax credits.

A permanent exhibit of photographs and artifacts that will open May 6 features the kinds of items one might expect to see in an installation titled, “Ellicott City’s Main Street: A Visual History.”

Lodge 175 has until the end of the year to raise $25,000 to finance needed repairs or lose the insurance. If it can’t, the building will be put it up for sale, and generations of Kingsville-Upper Falls history will come to an end.

Towson High advocate group "New in '22" met with county officials in March to discuss the process for taking the school off the historic landmark list, making it easier to renovate and expand the building.

Bel Air town officials seemed to have reached a consensus they don’t want the popular Armory on Main Street to leave town ownership, but they are less certain about how much control they want to give up over the building’s future management.

Havre de Grace Mayor Bill Martin sent out a news release earlier this week touting his selection as Harford County’s “Best Elected Official” for 2017 in Harford Magazine’s 2017 Best of Harford readers’ poll.

What Bel Air town officials say will be the last phase of construction for the Armory Marketplace project is expected to get underway this spring. The Board of Town Commissioners recently approved a contract to renovate the last two of the five former garage spaces.

The City of Havre de Grace announced today the Havre de Grace Cultural Center at the Opera House received a Maryland Preservation Award for Project Excellence: Community Impact from the Maryland Historical Trust at the 43rd Maryland Preservation Awards ceremony held in Annapolis Feb. 1.

World War II veteran taught at City College and was a school administrator and Ladew Garden chief

The Howard County Historical Society’s 41st annual Holiday House tour will take place from 1:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Dec. 10, starting in the parking lot of Centennial High School, 4300 Centennial Lane, Ellicott City.

A group raising money for repairs to Wayside Cross, Towson’s World War I memorial has met its $50,000 to make overdue repairs.

Once again this city has embarrassed us.

The four Confederate statues yanked down in Baltimore represent an important story to tell, but who should tell it and where is hard to say.

The Maryland Historical Trust has concluded that Baltimore officials didn’t have the legal authority to remove three monuments to the Confederacy and, while acknowledging it doesn’t plan to, the state agency reserved the right to order the city to put them back.

Trinity United Church of Christ is raising money to renovate and restore the sanctuary in Manchester.

Orlando Ridout, 95, a leading Annapolis preservationist who was the first director of the Maryland Historical Trust, died Aug. 25 from complications of Parkinson's disease at Brightview South Rive

A Prince George’s County state senator is calling on his colleagues to condemn Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller for his position on the Taney statue in Annapolis.

The farmhouse of the family behind Perdue Farms has been added to a state historical registry.

The statue of Chief Justice Roger B. Taney was removed from the grounds of the Maryland State House in Annapolis.

Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller is criticizing members of the Maryland State House Trust for voting by email to remove the statue of Roger B. Taney from the State House lawn in Annapolis.

Baltimore’s four Confederate-linked monuments have been relegated to a city-owned lot, as President Trump decries 'history and culture .. being ripped apart.'

Councilman Brandon Scott announced on Twitter Sunday night that he would introduce a resolution at tomorrow's City Council meeting calling for the destruction