Author: Shelby Weaver Splain (Page 2 of 22)

Shelby Weaver Splain is the Survey & Education Section Supervisor for the Pennsylvania State Historic Preservation Office. Shelby is a native of Bucks County and holds a Masters degree in Historic Preservation Planning from Cornell University and a Bachelor of Arts with Honors in Historic Preservation from Goucher College.

PA SHPO is Hiring a Senior Curator of Archaeology!

July 2, 2025 / Shelby Weaver Splain / 0 Comments

The Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission (PHMC) is looking for a versatile and experienced archaeologist to direct the Archaeology Curation section of the Pennsylvania State Historic Preservation Office.

As a Senior Curator, you will oversee a team of archaeologists who preserve more than 11.5 million artifacts and use them to help tell the story of more than 12,000 years of Pennsylvania history through changing exhibitions and public programs. You will have the opportunity to represent PHMC within the field of archaeology at the state and national level, developing new initiatives related to NAGPRA compliance, collections management, and public outreach.

If you have a passion for Pennsylvania and archaeology, apply today!

PA SHPO is Hiring an Education & Special Initiatives Coordinator!

May 30, 2025 / Shelby Weaver Splain / 0 Comments

Are you a preservation professional with a passion for education, outreach, and collaboration? Do you want to join a team of dedicated preservationists, historians, archaeologists, and planners working with people and organizations across the Commonwealth? If you have the experience and training to be a Historic Preservation Specialist – Education & Special Initiatives Coordinator, we have the job for you!

PA SHPO is Hiring an Environmental Review Archaeologist!

May 23, 2025 / Shelby Weaver Splain / 0 Comments

Are you an archaeologist who would enjoy utilizing your experience to conduct a wide range of environmental review projects? If so, the Pennsylvania State Historic Preservation Office (PA SHPO) is eager to welcome a Historic Preservation Specialist with a discipline in archaeology to join the Environmental Review Division. Join us in our mission to discover, protect, and share Pennsylvania’s past, inspiring others to value and use our history in meaningful ways!

Brick church at an intersection of two streets with a tall corner steeple.

Celebrating the Restoration of Huntingdon’s Community Clock

May 21, 2025 / Shelby Weaver Splain / 0 Comments

This week’s 2024 Community Initiative Award winner spotlight is on the restoration of the community clock in the Borough of Huntingdon, Huntingdon County.

Group of men and women next to sign that says 1850 Welsh Church Restoration Project Lansford National Historic District.

Celebrating Lansford’s Welsh Church

May 14, 2025 / Shelby Weaver Splain / 1 Comment

To celebrate National Historic Preservation Month this year, we will highlight the two 2024 Community Initiative Award winners with their own blog posts. In this week’s post, I asked Bruce Markovich with the Lansford Historical Society in Lansford, Carbon County about their work preserving the Welsh Church, which will celebrate its 175th anniversary this year. Continue reading

Celebrating Preservation Month with the 2024 Community Initiative Award Winners

May 7, 2025 / Shelby Weaver Splain / 0 Comments

May is Historic Preservation Month! PA SHPO traditionally kicks off the month by announcing the newest Community Initiative Award winners.

For 2024, the awardees are two organizations whose projects demonstrate the importance of embracing and preserving local history and the places that help tell their communities’ stories.

Don’t Miss Pennsylvania’s Statewide Heritage Gathering in June!

April 30, 2025 / Shelby Weaver Splain / 0 Comments

Preservation Pennsylvania’s statewide conference is back – in mini-form! – with Preservation Forward: A Statewide Heritage Gathering in Johnstown on June 1 & 2, 2025.

PA SHPO is Hiring a new PASS Coordinator!

April 9, 2025 / Shelby Weaver Splain / 0 Comments

Are you interested in a career where you have the opportunity to work with a pro-active, dedicated team of preservationists, historians, and archaeologists? If so, consider joining the State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO), Preservation Support Division as the Pennsylvania Archaeological Site Survey (PASS) Coordinator.

This position allows you to utilize your experience as you oversee the Pennsylvania Archaeological Site Survey program (PASS). Our goal is to maintain the integrity of archaeological sites and survey information in the SHPO data management system (PA-SHARE) in order to assist the SHPO, other agencies, and the public in evaluating the archaeological resources within the Commonwealth.

PA SHPO is Hiring an Archaeologist!

March 27, 2025 / Shelby Weaver Splain / 0 Comments

Connecting across the Country

March 19, 2025 / Shelby Weaver Splain / 0 Comments

Earlier this month, PA SHPO staff made their annual trek to Washington, D.C. to meet with other SHPOs and preservationists from across the country as part of National Historic Preservation Advocacy Week.

Author: Shelby Weaver Splain (Page 2 of 22)

PA SHPO is Hiring a Senior Curator of Archaeology!

PA SHPO is Hiring an Education & Special Initiatives Coordinator!

PA SHPO is Hiring an Environmental Review Archaeologist!

Celebrating the Restoration of Huntingdon’s Community Clock

Celebrating Lansford’s Welsh Church

Celebrating Preservation Month with the 2024 Community Initiative Award Winners

Don’t Miss Pennsylvania’s Statewide Heritage Gathering in June!

PA SHPO is Hiring a new PASS Coordinator!

PA SHPO is Hiring an Archaeologist!

Connecting across the Country

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