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Endangered Sites
Endangered Sites Committee Endangered Sites List Summary of Frederick County Endangered Sites List Endangered Sites Articles Other Related Endangered Sites Listings Other Preservation Resources
Endangered Sites Committee The Endangered Sites Committee is a loosely organized, dynamic group of volunteers within FCLF that advocates for the protection and preservation of structures or other historic features in Frederick County that are at risk.
Volunteers attend and make presentations at public hearings, write letters and articles, contact owners of structures and government agencies, distribute petitions or other activities to raise public awareness. They research building histories and document structures. When a building is to be lost, they salvage historic building materials to allow reuse in other preservation projects.
To join this group either for a specific issue or for the long term, contact FCLF. You can be part of the solution.
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Endangered Sites List FCLF publishes an annual list of Frederick County's most endangered sites in Frederick Magazine. Frederick is one of few local organizations to formally identify historic treasures threatened by demolition, deterioration, or development. This important effort has been responsible for raising public awareness of the vulnerability of irreplaceable historic assets, and has helped save several sites that would have otherwise been destroyed.
Threatened structures or other historic features in Frederick County can be nominated to the annual Endangered Sites List by contacting FCLF with information on the history and importance of the site and the nature of the threat to the site. The list is finalized each June for publication in September.
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Summary of Frederick County Endangered Sites Lists Under construction
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Endangered Sites articles (courtesy Frederick Magazine) Under construction
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Other Related Endangered Sites Listings Statewide, Preservation Maryland and Maryland Magazine are beginning a similar program.
Nationally, the National Trust for Historic Preservation annually lists 11 Most Endangered Places in their magazine Preservation. Some Frederick County sites have been featured - the Monocacy Aqueduct in 1998 and The Journey Through Hallowed Ground (Route 15 corridor) in 2005.
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Other Preservation Resources
Frederick County Historic Preservation Commission
Historic Preservation Planner Janet Davis, 301-696-2958 or jdavis@fredco-md.net. Historical Society of Frederick County
Frederick City Historic Preservation Commission Historic Preservation Planner Barbara Wyatt, 301-694-1792
Emmitsburg Area Historical Society
Middletown Valley Historical Society 305 W. Main Street, P.O. Box 294 Middletown, MD 21769-0294 (301)371-7582
Point of Rocks Community Historical Society
Thurmont Historical Society P.O. Box 251 11 N. Church Street Thurmont, MD 2l788-0251 (301)271-1860 Contact: Anne W. Cissel, Research Librarian
Urbana Historical Society Gil House (301) 831-8215 or (301) 663-6244
Maryland Historical Trust
Preservation Maryland
National Trust for Historic Preservation
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