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Celebrate Our County's Beach Resort History!

 Anne Arundel County is celebrating its 20th-century Beach Resort history by holding three FREE history and heritage appreciation events throughout the summer of 2016 at Beverly-Triton Beach Park and Mayo Beach Park, in partnership with the  Maryland Heritage Areas Authority, Anne Arundel County Trust for Preservation, Four Rivers Heritage Area, and Anne Arundel County's Cultural Resources Division and Recreation and Parks.

Anne Arundel County Trust for Preservation, Inc. received a mini-grant from Four Rivers Heritage Area to produce the Field Guide to Galesville, 

a walking tour of a fascinating historic town in Anne Arundel County. Download it here!

Read our most recent Preservation Bulletin (December 2015) to catch up on what ACT has been doing.

ACT, Inc. is now on facebook!  

The British were here! Click here for information on our recently completed War of 1812 grant project at Tracys Landing and in Shady Side, sponsored by the Maryland War Bicentennial Commission!

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ACT and the Lost Towns Project greatly appreciate support from the Four Rivers Heritage Area mini-grant program and the Sands House Foundation for limited archaeological testing at the ca. 1700 Sands House at 130 Prince George Street in Annapolis.  This collaborative project took place in May/June 2010 and was designed to learn more about the history and building sequence of this important historic structure.  These excavations explored the relationship of the house to its surroundings, and quite possibly, an earlier building that may have existed. 

Lost Towns Project archaeologists excavated a single 5’ x 4.9’ unit placed in a corner at the rear of the original Sands House, where it meets a ca. 1904 rear wing addition.  Two smaller 2’ x 4’ units were placed along the west side of the house in an effort to see if the earthfast building uncovered by Archaeology in Annapolis extended outside the western confines of the 1786 addition. 

Despite its limited nature, this research project produced important clues concerning the architecture of the Sands House and the lifestyle of its occupants. 

Click to read summary findings

The new Discover London Town! museum exhibit has opened to public at Historic London Town and Gardens in Edgewater, Maryland.

Click to read "A Journey Back in Time...Discover London Town!" by John E. Kille and Donna M. Ware