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Quest for national park honoring Thurgood Marshall moves forward

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Quest for national park honoring Thurgood Marshall moves forward
Details of a quest to create an urban national park in west Baltimore to honor the late Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall were outlined to Baltimore's historic preservation panel on Tuesday.The effort is the subject of a study launched by the National Park Service in 2019, which will remain open to public comment through June 1, the city's Commission for Historical and Architectural Preservation, or CHAP, was told by federal park officials.The study will lead to a report that is expected to wrap up next year for the U.S. Department of the Interior and, later, Congress for possible legislation to create the park in what today is a blighted block of Upton.CHAP members were told the park honoring Marshall has the potential to be Baltimore's second national park next to Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine in Locust Point.Read the full story from our partners at the Baltimore Business Journal

Details of a quest to create an urban national park in west Baltimore to honor the late Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall were outlined to Baltimore's historic preservation panel on Tuesday.

The effort is the subject of a study launched by the National Park Service in 2019, which will remain open to public comment through June 1, the city's Commission for Historical and Architectural Preservation, or CHAP, was told by federal park officials.

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The study will lead to a report that is expected to wrap up next year for the U.S. Department of the Interior and, later, Congress for possible legislation to create the park in what today is a blighted block of Upton.

CHAP members were told the park honoring Marshall has the potential to be Baltimore's second national park next to Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine in Locust Point.