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Maryland Historical Trust
A 17th century Quaker meeting house. A celebrated one-room schoolhouse. Rustic mills. These are some of the 500 properties in Maryland preserved by easements with the Maryland Historical Trust. The trust grants such easements as a way to protect the state's valued historic structures and preserve local heritage and folklore. Eligibility stems from owning property listed on, or eligible for the National Register of Historic Places or in a locally certified historic district. State and federal tax benefits are available. In such cases, the perpetual, historical easements are bestowed as a gift to the Maryland Historical Trust. Certain easements are also co-held with the Maryland Environmental Trust.
For more information, call the program administrator at the Maryland Historical Trust at (410) 514-7634 or visit the website
http://www.marylandhistoricaltrust.net.
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| Maryland Environmental Trust |
| Local Land Trusts |
| Tax Benefits |
| Easement Donation Process |
| Appraisal Guidelines |
| Maryland Historical Trust |
| Professional Landowner Advisor |
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What motivates landowners to protect their land? Hear what landowners say about why they donated or sold a permanent conservation easement on their land.
"Our easement means a great deal in terms of our interest in the farm -- we really value the open space and are very much interested in protecting it. It also fits into a larger puzzle: Our 286-acre farm boarders Sugarloaf mountain and when we put it under easement, we invited a bunch of neighbors in to discuss the MET program. As a result two of our neighbors put in their farms in easement and that added something like 1,600 acres to the total picture, all adjoining. The complete picture has meant a lot to us to know that this patchwork of open space will be protected."
Law B. Watkins, Montgomery County, Maryland. MET Easement recorded in 1976.
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