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Offbeat Outings: Vandergrift
Offbeat Outings is a bi-monthly series that highlights the travels of BHP staff as they experience history first-hand throughout Pennsylvania. When some people plan to go on an historic vacation they...
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Community Preservation Workshop in Erie – June 20
Event will feature experts from the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission and Preservation Pennsylvania Preservation Erie and the Erie County Historical Society are collaborating to present an...
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BHP’s Offbeat Outings: Worlds End
Offbeat Outings is a bi-monthly series that highlights the travels of BHP staff as they experience history first-hand throughout Pennsylvania. A few weeks ago, I headed north on Friday afternoon and...
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Spotlight Series: Back to School
Over the last several weeks, you’ve read some of the adventures of our summer 2014 interns. As they, and countless other students, head back to those hallowed halls of higher education, we here at the...
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Community Preservation Workshop in Altoona September 18th
Altoona Cultural Resources Essentials Focus: Community Preservation Workshop Where: Altoona Heritage Discovery Center 1421-1427 12th Avenue Altoona, PA 16601 When: Thursday, September 18th 2014,...
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Intern Insights: The Buckaloons
Hi y’all, I’m Meghan Rooney and I had the amazing opportunity to intern with PHMC-BHP all summer. I am a senior at Shippensburg University, studying Public Administration with dual minors in History...
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Spotlight Series: Lancaster Central Market celebrates its 125th Anniversary
For some readers the onset of seasonal fall weather means bundling up for Friday night high school football games or starting the furnace, but I’m always reminded that another growing season is coming...
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History with a slice of pie: on the road with the Heinrichs
Late in August this summer Keith and I found ourselves in Westmoreland County, on a rare working Saturday, with a couple hours of down time. Between my meeting with a consultant in the morning and...
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Digital Underground: Seeking Electronic Versions of Archaeological Reports
As many of you will have noticed in your recent correspondence with our office, the Pennsylvania State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO), we have made a change in number and media requested for...
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Happy Birthday to ReGIS
ReGIS is 10! In Spring 2005 we launched the public version of the Cultural Resources Geographic Information System (CRGIS) website. The database search was named AskReGIS and this little guy was born...
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5 Things about the New and Improved Archaeological Guidelines
What better way to celebrate archaeology during Preservation50 than to share the PA State Historic Preservation Office’s recently revised and newly issued of the Guidelines for Archaeological...
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Shouting-Out about the Statewide Conference!
Time for April’s SHPO Shout-Out! I’m going to mix it up a bit this month and Shout Out about something that’s happening soon rather than something that’s already happened or is in the process of...
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Mapping the Probability of Pre-Historic Archaeological Sites
As we mentioned in our recent post about new archaeology guidelines, The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT), and PHMC partnered with URS...
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Special Announcement: Help us build a digital library!
Historic preservation consultants, archaeology consultants, local preservation and/or archaeology organizations, local & county planners, and historical societies, the PA SHPO needs your help!...
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5 Things to Know about Upcoming Changes!
Head’s up! Changes are coming to the PA SHPO in 2017! As many of you out there may be aware, our office is working hard behind the scenes to construct and prepare for a 21st century system to manage...
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Special Announcement: Geospatial Standards for Report Submissions
Last month, we announced changes in how we would like to receive archaeological and architectural reports. These changes are designed to streamline the review process and to reduce paper copies. In...
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Reminder! Draft Report Submissions
Reminder for all Project Review archaeology report preparers! As we announced in our April 2017 Newsletter and at last week’s Statewide Conference on Heritage in Carlisle, the PA SHPO has changed the...
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The Future of Preservation is …..Summer Interns at the PA SHPO
As the summer of 2017 begins a new group of students and perhaps future preservationists have arrived at the PA State Historic Preservation Office (PA SHPO) to participate in the PHMC Keystone Summer...
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Archaeology Month: Celebrating Recordation, New Insights, and Preservation
Fall is always an exciting time of year for archaeologists across the state as we gear up to celebrate Pennsylvania Archaeology Month each October! I know it’s a bit early, but I didn’t want anyone to...
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CRGIS will soon have a NEW Map Viewer!
Over the next several hours, CRGIS will have limited functionability will it is being updated with the new and improved changes. This new map viewer has been a long time coming, and I am happy to...
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