The comprehensive management plan and environmental assessment for the Star-Spangled Banner National Historic Trail is now complete. The plan will guide development and management of the trail for the next 15 to 20 years. Thank you for your participation in the planning process — your input at public meetings, your careful review of planning efforts in your neighborhoods, and for your comments and suggestions. The trail highlights your local places significant to the War of 1812 in the Chesapeake.
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Save This Date: JULY 30
Join us in Baltimore’s Fell’s Point neighborhood from 10 am to 12 noon on Monday, July 30 as we celebrate the launch of the Star-Spangled Banner National Historic Trail. Keynote speakers include U.S. Congressman John Sarbanes and U.S. Senator Benjamin Cardin. New Star-Spangled Banner Trail products will be featured, including:
- An excellent history and travel book, In Full Glory Reflected: Discovering the War of 1812 in the Chesapeake, by Ralph Eshelman and Burt Kummerow
- A smart new website for the trail, www.starspangledtrail.net
- A Junior Ranger Activity Book for kids age 6-12
- A beautiful Pocket Guide to the trail — an easy to carry brochure with history on one side and a map of the trail on the other
- Highway markers — southern half of the land route now marked
- Trail kiosk — see what visitors are reading at 25 trail locations now
