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Graduate intern presents midterm neighborhood history report and next steps
Summary
A University of Maryland graduate student summarized a year of archival research and digitization for a College Park neighborhood history project, proposed oral history collection next steps, and recommended public‑facing materials to help preserve and share local history.
Megan Raibert, a graduate student at the University of Maryland working as the city’s neighborhood history intern, presented a midterm report to the council summarizing roughly a year of archival research and a proposed path forward to digitize, preserve and expand College Park’s local history.
Why it matters: the project documents neighborhood development, transportation history, historic preservation efforts and under‑represented local histories (including African American history in neighborhoods such as Lakeland). The city funded the internship to create a publicly accessible historical resource and to seed future oral history efforts.
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