As part of an initiative to preserve the visual history of Singerly Fire Company, I have been working with the department’s museum and archive committee to digitize the Bob Norman Collection. This sizable resource, containing over a half-century of fire service images, was added to the institutional repository by the company’s official fire photographer. Fire…
Category: Historic Preservation
Effort to Save Levi Coppin School Continues as State Reopens Review Process
CECILTON – September 2, 2020 – The demolition plan for the Levi Coppin School in Cecilton is being reassessed as a “post-review discovery” under section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act, according to the Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD). Some months earlier, a determination had been made that the demolition of…
Carriage Maker Restored Hand Pumpers For Fire Department
In the mid-1980s, I started working on a project for Singerly Fire Company. We were preparing to celebrate our 100th anniversary in Elkton, MD, and planned several traditional projects. Tasks included researching, creating exhibits, commissioning an oil painting, and arranging events. However, we faced a challenge in restoring the two hand pumpers from the early…
Preservation Success Story: 150 Year Old Jail Saved in Princess Anne
The question of what to do with an old, worn-out Maryland jail comes up occasionally. When it does, there are some that say these aging structures, relics from an earlier era, are just in the way of progress and have no value. But others argue that those aging walls, survivors of centuries, add to the…