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Princess Anne awarded $50,000
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Legacy grant to be used for downtown
Town officials have been awarded a $50,000 state Community Legacy grant that will be used for facade renovations and marketing efforts for Princess Anne’s downtown area.
Members of the Downtown Partnership of the Princess Anne Chamber of Commerce worked with the town to write the grant application, said Ben Alder, [...]
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Mid-Shore towns get community legacy funds
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Gov. Martin O’Malley on Friday announced eight towns and cities on the Eastern Shore will receive $882,000 in community legacy funds for 13 projects.
Altogether, the state will allocate $7 million in community legacy grants for 73 projects across Maryland. The money is intended to revitalize Maryland communities by stimulating reinvestment.
Grants will be allocated for three [...]
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The many lives of the Centreville Victorian
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If living in a house can be a deja vu experience, then Heidi and Jesse Hammock have been there, done that.
A year ago, they bought an 1860-era house in Centreville that both of them had lived in earlier in their lives.
Back in the 1930s, the house was converted into seven apartments. At one time [...]
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More Information on Proposed New Development
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At the September 26th Comprehensive Plan Hearing, Thomas Sperl (the current developer of Northbrook) and Michael Whitehill (V.P. of McCrone) proposed an expansion of Centreville’s growth area so 700 new homes could be built.
One development will be 220 workforce housing units and 30 transition housing units located on what is currently County deed-restricted Open [...]
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Watching Out for Our Front Door
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How many times a week does each of us pull off Route 301 North and head to Centreville via Route 213? The intersection of those two state highways is significant because it is the ‘front door’ to Centreville. Right now it is a cloverleaf of four farms.
Not for long, my friends.
Two of the farms, on [...]
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Historic District Nomination Form
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Mary McCarthy has graciously provided the CGC with the Nomination Form for the Centreville National Register Historic District. The form contains an inventory that classifies structures as either contributing or non-contributing. Contributing properties are eligible for a State Rehabilitation tax credits and low-interest rehabilitation loans. For more information see the Maryland Historical [...]
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Centreville is fortunate to have an interesting and important history. To
learn more about its history, we suggest reading the Queen Anne’s County
Maryland by Frederic Emory.
As Queen Anne’s County prepares for its 300th anniversary, more interest is
being placed on Centreville’s importance as the county seat. For more
information, we suggest you contact local historian Mary Margaret Goodwin or the
Queen Anne’s County Historical Society.
Citizens for Greater Centreville would like to preserve local history and
favors reusing and renovating historic buildings and also preserving and
enhancing historic landscapes.
