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Date added: November 29, 2012
At 47,560 acres, Green Ridge State Forest is the second largest state forest in Maryland and the “largest contiguous block of public land in Maryland.” It offers opportunities for target shooting, hunting, fishing, primitive camping, hiking, mountain biking, horseback riding,… read more
Date added: November 24, 2012
Savage River State Forest is the largest state forest in Maryland. It offers the following: “Biking trails, boat launch, cross country skiing, campsites, fishing, flat water canoeing, hiking trail, historic interest, hunting, picnic, riding trails, shelters, snowmobiling, white water canoeing”… read more
Date added: October 17, 2012
From a 1993 “Maryland Register of Historic Properties Internal Listing Notice” (prepared by Dr. Conrad Gregory): “The Chambers Park Log Cabin is significant as an example (of) New Deal park architecture more commonly associated with western Maryland parks than those… read more
Date added: October 11, 2012
Robert F. Gates completed this tempera on canvas mural, entitled “Buckwheat Harvest,” in 1942 with funds provided by the Treasury Section of Fine Arts.
Date added: October 11, 2012
A cornerstone on the Oakland, Maryland Post Office shows it to be a project of the Federal Works Administration from 1940.
Date added: October 1, 2012
New Deal mural entitled “History of Transportation” painted by Nicolai Cikovsky in 1939. The mural is composed of five tempera panels.
Date added: October 1, 2012
The Towson Post Office was built circa 1936-1937, as a U.S. Treasury Department project.
Date added: September 15, 2012
The land that is now Cunningham Falls State Park used to be part of the Catoctin Recreational Demonstration Area (now called “Catoctin Mountain Park”). The land was turned over to Maryland in 1954. The land was originally worked and developed… read more
Date added: September 5, 2012
The Salisbury Post Office, on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, was originally built in the 1920s. The U.S. Treasury commissioned an expansion of the building circa 1936 “which included a second floor and…an additional two bays on each end of… read more
Date added: September 5, 2012
From the National Park Service website for Catoctin Mountain Park: “President Franklin D. Roosevelt created programs to give people a chance to rebuild their lives from the Great Depression. The Works Progress Administration and the Civilian Conservation Corps gave this… read more
Date added: August 27, 2012
Mitchell Jamieson painted the mural “Tobacco Cutters” in 1938 for the Treasury Section of Fine Arts to hang in the former Upper Marlboro post office. The building is now the Upper Marlboro branch of the Prince George’s County public library…. read more
Date added: August 27, 2012
The public library building in Upper Marlboro used to be the town Post Office, built in 1936 – one of 1,100 post offices built by the U.S. Treasury Department as part of the New Deal. Today, it serves as the… read more
Date added: July 27, 2012
“The men of the CCC developed this park by building roads, pavilions, shelters, outdoor grills, restrooms, and more. They rebuilt the deteriorated walls of Fort Frederick (now a National Historic Landmark) and the barrack foundations inside the fort (the barracks… read more
Date added: July 16, 2012
The Battle of Antietam took place on September 17, 1862, and is known as the bloodiest day of the Civil War. General George B. McClellan and his Union forces faced off against General Robert E. Lee and his Confederate Army… read more
Date added: June 10, 2012
This PWA building was used as a fire station until the 1960s, when Company 19 moved into a new fire station on the same block. The original building still seems to be standing next door to the new station, and… read more