Community Initiative Awards Archives - Pennsylvania Heritage Magazine

The Eighth Community Initiative Awards

Posted by Shelby Splain on Dec 1, 2025 in | Comments Off Earlier this year, the Pennsylvania State Historic Preservation Office (PA SHPO) announced the winners of its Community Initiative Awards acknowledging accomplishments made in 2024. The Community Initiative Awards program recognizes the hard work and dedication of outstanding organizations, municipalities, agencies and individuals that advance and expand the definition of historic preservation...
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The Seventh Annual Community Initiative Awards

Posted by Shelby Splain on Nov 18, 2024 in | Comments Off Each May, to celebrate National Historic Preservation Month, the Pennsylvania State Historic Preservation Office (PA SHPO) announces the winners of its annual Community Initiative Awards. PA SHPO started the awards program in 2016 to recognize the hard work and dedication of outstanding organizations, municipalities, agencies and individuals that advance and expand the definition of historic...
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Community Initiative Awards

Posted by Shelby Splain on Sep 18, 2023 in | Comments Off Earlier this year, the Pennsylvania State Historic Preservation Office (PA SHPO) announced the winners of its Community Initiative Awards acknowledging accomplishments made in 2022. PA SHPO started the awards program in 2016 to recognize the hard work and dedication of outstanding organizations, municipalities, agencies and individuals that advance and expand the definition of historic...
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Community Initiative Awards for 2021

Posted by Shelby Splain on Sep 12, 2022 in | Comments Off The Pennsylvania State Historic Preservation Office (PA SHPO) has announced the winners of its Community Initiative Awards to recognize accomplishments made in 2021. These awards acknowledge the hard work and dedication of outstanding organizations, municipalities, agencies and individuals whose work is advancing and expanding the definition of historic preservation in Pennsylvania. The awards...
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Preservation Success in All Shapes and Sizes

Posted by Shelby Splain on Dec 1, 2021 in | Comments Off In May 2021 the Pennsylvania State Historic Preservation Office (PA SHPO) asked Pennsylvanians to send in their preservation success stories to celebrate National Historic Preservation Month. Now, PA SHPO is welcoming success stories all year long — not just in May. A preservation success story can be an activity, event, person, organization or place that shines a spotlight on efforts across the...
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Editor’s Letter

Posted by Kyle Weaver on Nov 29, 2021 in | Comments Off Pennsylvania is home to some of the most acclaimed mural paintings in the nation, including those in our own State Capitol created by Violet Oakley, the first woman in the country to receive a public mural commission in 1902 (see “To Form a More Perfect Union,” Fall 2019), and those found on the walls of many U.S. post offices in the state, installed as part of public work projects between 1934...
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Community Initiative Awards Honor Historic Preservation Successes

Posted by Shelby Splain on Mar 25, 2021 in | Comments Off The Pennsylvania State Historic Preservation Office (PA SHPO) has announced its Community Initiative Awards for 2020. These awards recognize individuals, organizations, municipalities, agencies and others for their hard work and dedication in achieving preservation successes throughout the commonwealth. The awards are a program of PA SHPO’s innovative statewide historic preservation plan,...
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Fighter’s Heaven: Muhammad Ali’s Training Camp in the Pennsylvania Wilderness

Posted by Todd Mealy on Dec 28, 2020 in | Comments Off On a mountainside overlooking Deer Lake, in Pennsylvania’s Schuylkill County, is a restored boxers’ training camp called Fighter’s Heaven, originally built by Muhammad Ali (1942–2016) in 1972. The Champ, as he boastfully called himself, designed the boxing haven during the early phase of his post-three-year-suspension comeback tour in order to escape the hullabaloo of civilization as he trained...
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Editor’s Letter

Posted by Kyle Weaver on Dec 24, 2020 in | Comments Off In 2016 the Pennsylvania State Historic Preservation Office (PA SHPO) presented its first Community Initiative Awards to recognize organizations, agencies, municipalities and individuals throughout the commonwealth for their historic preservation successes. The program has become a key component of PA SHPO’s statewide historic preservation plan, #PreservationHappensHere, encouraging...
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