Preservation Pennsylvania’s statewide conference is back – in mini-form! – with Preservation Forward: A Statewide Heritage Gathering in Johnstown on June 1 & 2, 2025.
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The Howellville Truss Bridge is a great example of a Warren Pony Truss bridge, originally built in 1879 to serve the Northern Central Railway, which ran between Baltimore, Maryland, and Sunbury, Pennsylvania.
One of the more rewarding parts of my job as the PA SHPO’s Community Preservation Coordinator for the Western Region is assisting non-profits, developers and municipalities understand and think through how historic buildings fit into economic development strategies and projects.
Queue the Jeopardy! music…
If you answered “PA SHPO’s Annual Report,” you’re correct!
This latest installment of “Historic Tax Credits @ Work” features the rehabilitation of a Tudor Style mansion into local office space.
On this day 12 years ago….
*Insert horrible photo with questionable style choices and aggressive side bangs*
Thankfully, this is not that kind of blast from the past. This is your yearly recap on archaeological site recording and survey efforts throughout Pennsylvania.
Two Black men, Edenborough Smith and John Harshberger appear in the 1850 census on tracts of land now situated in Laurel Ridge State Park overlooking Johnstown’s West End. From at least the 1820s, and possibly as early as the turn of the 19th century, Smith, Harshberger and their families lived in a community of Black, White, and Indigenous people that has been referred to as the Laurel Hill Settlement, Brown Farm and “the Mountain.” Eight generations lived on the Mountain until the property was claimed by the state in 1967.
This is part of a biannual blog series highlighting the agreement documents executed by PA SHPO in accordance with Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act and its implementing regulations.
You’re probably wondering what this postcard has to do with PA SHPO and historic preservation, let alone New Year’s or 2025. I came across this gem while searching the PA State Archives digital collections for images that I could use for a New Year’s Day blog post.
Is it even the end of a year if you don’t see at least a dozen “year in review” lists?
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