2018 Preservation Matters

Charles County Planning and Growth Management has just published the 2018 Preservation Matters Newsletter, an annual publication celebrating Charles County's Historic places.

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To entice you to look at the newsletter, here is a list of the articles included in the newsletter.  Three of the articles relate to archaeology.

• Mount Hope Baptist Church: A Day of Collaboration and Rediscovery by Ruby Thomas and Meagan Baco
  (Correction: It was volunteers from Charles County Archaeological Society of Maryland, Inc including CCASM member James Gibb who recorded the actual locations that did the archaeological survey of the Carroll Cemetery.  Esther Read was in charge.)
  
  
• The Warehouse District: The Rise and Fall of Hughesville's Loose-Leaf Tobacco Markets
  
  
• Hughesville: A commercial and Tobacco Marketing Center by Nicole Diehlmann
  
  
• From Riverside Village to Upland Camp and Back: Native Americans of the Terminal Archaic Period by James G Gibb
  
  
• Epp Farmstead: Germans Homesteading a Charles County Farm by James G Gibb and Sherri Marsh Johns
   
  
• Zekiah Valley: Preserving Rural Heritage
     
• Preservation Awards 2018 Recipient
      
• Finding Port Tobacco by Esther Doyle Read