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Featured Article: Partnering to Protect a Jersey City Landmark
The Pennsylvania Railroad Harsimus Branch Embankment is a half-mile-long massive stone structure that for nine decades brought interstate freight into the Harsimus Yards covering the Jersey City waterfront. The Harsimus Yards were a major component of the west bank of the Hudson railhead supplying the New York region and the Port of New York and New Jersey, and thus were vital to the growth of the port. The Yards are now virtually erased by skyscrapers and big box development.
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Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:48:26 +0000
national preservation conference
Oklahoma’s capital, Guthrie. Or, not.
You’ve heard the story of the movement of the US Capital from Philadelphia to the humid, swampy, cow town of Washington. But that was all about the federal government being independent of the states, being able to secure itself, yadda yadda, yawn. The much more interesting and positively scandalous story is that of the move [...]

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:58:07 +0000
preservation leadership training, general
“I’m Leaving on a Jet Plane”: Final Thoughts on PLT 2008
It has been a few days since we had to leave cool (and apparently unseasonably rainy) Portland, Maine to return to the humidity that is Washington in the summer, but the thirty-four participants of this year’s Preservation Leadership Training left with a lot more baggage (the good kind, of course). As Robin from Maryland [...]