City to Receive 2023 Maryland Preservation Award

The annual awards, voted on by the MHT’s Board of Trustees, are offered to folks, locations, and packages for noteworthy accomplishments. They honor excellent schooling, restoration and revitalization initiatives, along with organizational and particular person management within the preservation area.

A press launch from the town of Hagerstown says, “The Metropolis is proud to be acknowledged for Excellent Stewardship of a MHT Easement Property for the Hagerstown Fairgrounds Entrance Constructing and Keeper’s Residence.”

The official press launch from the MHT states: “The Metropolis of Hagerstown has labored diligently to save lots of and rehabilitate the long-vacant Hagerstown Fairgrounds Entrance Constructing and Keeper’s Residence, the final remaining vestiges of the early fairgrounds. The Metropolis’s well timed response to their deterioration ensures a vibrant future for these important and picturesque buildings.”

And that effort is just not misplaced on the Govt Director of the group—who together with its companions—is dedicated to preserving the previous and galvanizing the way forward for Carroll, Frederick, and Washington Counties. “The Coronary heart of the Civil Conflict Heritage Space (HCWHA) celebrates Hagerstown’s well-deserved Preservation Award. The historical past of the Nice Hagerstown Honest, together with quite a few Civil Conflict-era associations, is shared in a wayside interpretive marker (on North Mulberry Road), one in every of an award-winning suite that the Maryland Heritage Areas Program funded years in the past and continues to boost the native customer expertise. The Metropolis’s good stewardship assures that the distinctive Fairground buildings, that are uncommon survivals, will proceed to grace Hagerstown,” HCWHA’s Elizabeth Shatto stated.