This week’s 2025 Community Initiative Award winner spotlight is on Lincoln Cemetery and Saving Our Ancestors Legacy (SOAL), the group preserving the cemetery, in the Borough of Penbrook, Dauphin County.
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This week’s 2025 Community Initiative Award winner spotlight is on the First Cambria African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Zion Church congregation in the City of Johnstown, Cambria County.
This week’s 2025 Community Initiative Award winner spotlight is on the rehabilitation of the Lansdowne Theater in the Borough of Lansdowne, Delaware County.
May is Historic Preservation Month! Since 2018, PA SHPO has celebrated by announcing the newest Community Initiative Award winners.
This week’s 2024 Community Initiative Award winner spotlight is on the restoration of the community clock in the Borough of Huntingdon, Huntingdon County.
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
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.
Is it even the end of a year if you don’t see at least a dozen “year in review” lists?
Celebrating Preservation Success Stories with Community Initiative Awards
Earlier this week my Alexa reminded me that there are 100 days until the end of the year. After a moment of shock, my brain started its mental cataloguing of all the things that I have to do before December 31. Deadlines, appointments, holidays, the list goes on…
One reminder I’d like to put on your to-do list before the year is out is to tell us about a preservation success story in your community. Each year PA SHPO selects a few of these stories for a Community Initiative Award.
Prominent landmarks in small towns hold a special type of nostalgic significance for those who have interacted with them.
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