Category: National Historic Preservation Act (Page 4 of 5)

Wiley’s Bridge is located along Bowers Road in Berks County. Public interest has spurred talks of preservation for this rare Whipple Through Truss bridge. Courtesy of historicbridges.org. Used by permission of Nathan Holth.

Bridge to the Past: PennDOT’s Historic Metal Truss Bridge Management Plan

March 15, 2017 / Tyra Guyton / 7 Comments

In June 2016, I was hired as the Transportation Special Initiatives Coordinator in the Pennsylvania State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO). This new position was created through a special funding agreement with the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) and was developed to assist them in marketing the state’s historic metal truss bridges. My position has evolved over the last 9 months and I see my purpose as helping both PennDOT and the SHPO preserve the remaining population of historic metal truss bridges by either marketing them for an adaptive reuse at a new location or helping to develop and implement a management plan to rehabilitate these bridges as part of the transportation system. Continue reading

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Pennsylvania’s Preservation Delegation

March 8, 2017 / Shelby Weaver Splain / 1 Comment

It’s almost spring in Washington, D.C. and for us here at the PA SHPO it doesn’t mean cherry blossoms – it means Advocacy Week! Next week, Pennsylvania’s Preservation Delegation heads south to talk about one of our favorite topics (historic preservation!) in a fresh new way (with videos!) and we are ready to go.

Ca. 2013 picture of the National Register-listed Potter/Allison House, a contributing building in the Penns/Brush Valley Rural Historic District. Photograph by Charles Richmond, McCormick Taylor, Inc.

A Journey to Potters Mills: Story Maps as Mitigation

March 1, 2017 / Guest Contributor / 4 Comments

Potters Mills? Story Maps? What are these things? This week’s post from guest contributor Charles Richmond will answer these burning questions and talk about this creative way to use 21st century technology to connect people to place and preservation.

5 Things about Preservation in 2016

December 28, 2016 / Shelby Weaver Splain / 1 Comment

This time of year is all about traditions, so I’m keeping one of ours here at the PA Historic Preservation blog: the Year in Review. Its a good time to reflect on all the great preservation in Pennsylvania in 2016. There is so much to choose from that it was hard to come up with my top 5! Once you read through my list, leave a comment and tell me what is on your Top 5 list.

The Governor’s Pipeline Infrastructure Task Force 2015-2016

December 14, 2016 / Douglas McLearen / 0 Comments

In May of 2015, Governor Tom Wolf appointed 48 people to serve on the newly-created Governor’s Pipeline Infrastructure Task Force, which was charged with creating a set of recommendations for responsibly guiding the extraction and transportation of natural gas in Pennsylvania. The purpose of the recommendations was to suggest best practices that would avoid or lessen environmental, community and cultural resources impacts and address safety issues. Below is the who, what, when, where, and how of this task force, the PA SHPO’s role, and the group’s accomplishments.

Community Connections: Planning for Preservation in Pennsylvania

Don’t Just Look Forward or Backward: Look Around for Preservation Partners

November 9, 2016 / David Maher / 0 Comments

In 2016, the preservation community has been looking back over the past 50 years to reflect upon the legacy of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966. The legislation laid the groundwork for the tools and strategies of preservation. For Pennsylvania, 2016 also marks the beginning of a multi-year planning process to look forward over the next five years (and beyond) through the development of a new Statewide Historic Preservation Plan. I had the chance to look around at the recent American Planning Association – Pennsylvania Chapter (APA-PA for short) conference and it got me thinking about how preservation is connecting to the bigger planning world.

Imagine this on a billboard! Image courtesy of the Society for Pennsylvania Archaeology (SPA). This year marks the 25th anniversary of the SPA Archaeology Month poster series. This year's poster sponsors are PHMC, SPA, PA Archaeological Council, Indiana Univ. of PA, Cultural Heritage Research Services, Inc., and Allegheny Archaeology Research.

Why is archaeology important?

October 26, 2016 / Kira Heinrich / 8 Comments

Sorry, guys, no October SHPO Shout-Out this month – but I have a good reason! Continue reading

Gallery page of the Digging I95 website, http://diggingi95.com/tag/gallery/

Artifacts from PennDOT Dig Shine at Wheaton

October 19, 2016 / Guest Contributor / 0 Comments

There’s a scene in the 1960 classic, The Time Machine, where Rod Taylor escapes the imminent nuclear war by throwing his machine fast into the future. Quickly, the ground rises all around him and for what appears to be an eternity, he is sitting there isolated from the outside world. At that moment, as we watch him shivering, we wonder with him what is going on above ground. An archaeologist would empathize with Rod Taylor at that moment, not because he has put himself into a tight spot, but because Taylor’s experience is the experience of all artifacts in the ground. They are part of the world, then they are no longer part of the world, having disappeared beneath the earth.

August’s SHPO Shout-Out!

August 31, 2016 / Shelby Weaver Splain / 0 Comments

It’s that time again!

As some of you may know, the National Park Service highlighted Pennsylvania in their #50for50 social media campaign earlier this month. This initiative is part of their broader effort to celebrate and recognize the 50th anniversary of the National Historic Preservation Act this year. Each week, NPS has been promoting the interesting, meaningful, and successful historic preservation work being done in each of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. territories. (FYI, this week is South Carolina’s turn!)

Here at PHMC, we participated by adding the #50for50 and #Preservation50 hashtags to all of the preservation-related posts on the Pennsylvania Trails of History Facebook page and @PHMC Twitter feed. I think NPS could have featured Pennsylvania’s successes for a year and still not have gotten through them all, but alas, we need to share the limelight. So, I thought it would be a great idea to share with you some of the stories that didn’t get aired that week and that we haven’t covered in previous posts and Shout-Outs.

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What is National Historic Preservation Advocacy Week?

April 13, 2016 / Andrea L. MacDonald / 0 Comments

I had to quickly learn the answer to that question for the first time this year… Advocacy Week is our annual opportunity to have a mass impact on opinion leaders and policy makers – together with a cohesive message in support of preservation-positive legislation. Advocacy Week is organized each year by Preservation Action and the National Conference of State Historic Preservation Offices (NCSHPO) and brings together over 250 preservationists to Washington, DC to promote sound federal preservation policy and programs.

Category: National Historic Preservation Act (Page 4 of 5)

Bridge to the Past: PennDOT’s Historic Metal Truss Bridge Management Plan

Pennsylvania’s Preservation Delegation

A Journey to Potters Mills: Story Maps as Mitigation

5 Things about Preservation in 2016

The Governor’s Pipeline Infrastructure Task Force 2015-2016

Don’t Just Look Forward or Backward: Look Around for Preservation Partners

Why is archaeology important?

Artifacts from PennDOT Dig Shine at Wheaton

August’s SHPO Shout-Out!

What is National Historic Preservation Advocacy Week?

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