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Delegation seeks to shrink Port Deposit park plan to prioritize Snow Hill site and reduce cost
Summary
Delegate Teresa Riley asked the committee to approve HB 1184, a local bill that would reduce the Port Deposit State Historical Park’s original acreage and postpone the land transfer to the Department of Natural Resources so stakeholders can focus on preserving Snow Hill, a free Black community site.
Delegate Teresa Riley presented HB 1184 to reduce the acreage of the Port Deposit State Historical Park and delay the land transfer to the Department of Natural Resources to allow focused preservation work at the Snow Hill archaeological site.
Riley told the Environment and Transportation Committee the 2022 insertion of the Port Deposit project into the Great Maryland Outdoors Act had proceeded without input from several local stakeholders, producing a concept that combined distinct historic areas — Snow Hill, the Tome School campus and a large wooded conservation area — into a single park scope with an estimated preliminary budget of over $56 million, and no identified funding source. The bill as presented would shrink the park to…
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