Rachel Carson Homestead to Undergo Historic Renovation

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The Rachel Carson Homestead Association has slated the Springdale property of the late famed ecologist and biologist for a $2 million restoration. Phase one, a $150,000 project that will include stabilizing the building and removing an addition, is scheduled to begin in the next few weeks.

Future visitors to Rachel Carson's former home will get a more historically accurate presentation of the life of the late famed ecologist and biologist, stewards of the Springdale property say.

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Rachel Carson Homestead to Undergo Historic Renovation

Stylistic and structural changes made over the decades have left the house built in 1857 substantially altered.

After the family left the home, subsequent owners put on additions in the 1930s and '40s. And between 1975, when the Rach...

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