Juneteenth 2026 – Valley Voices

Briefly Looking Back at African American Life in the Jones Falls Valley Chattolanee – Baltimore County (l) C. Seymour Diggs, Coachman for the Samuel Shoemaker family (late 1800s)(r) C. Seymour Diggs, wife Amanda Figgs Diggs and their daughter Virgina Temple Diggs (early 1900s) (l) Historic African American Green Spring United Methodist Church (1881)((r) Historic African American Gothic Revival housesContinue reading “Juneteenth 2026 – Valley Voices”

Experiencing a Major Stream and Wetlands Restoration Project Along the Upper Jones Falls

Some FTJF Board and Stewardship Committee members and a couple of others hiked recently in and around the Upper Jones Falls with an owner of the Eccleston Mitigation site in Baltimore County where more than 10,000 linear feet of the stream and 15 acres of wetlands have been reclaimed under a state conservation easement programContinue reading “Experiencing a Major Stream and Wetlands Restoration Project Along the Upper Jones Falls”