Still Pond Preservation, Inc. has a signed contract to purchase the Covington Store in the center of the village. However, the purchase price must be raised in the next 100 days for the sale to go through. Donations are needed to help to buy it, fix it, and make sure it’s there for another 130 years.
Still Pond Preservation Inc, is a nonprofit Maryland corporation which has applied for 501(c)3 status.
For more information, call Walter Bowie, 410-348-2120 or Rob Ditmars, 443-480-0724.
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Donate by PayPal: www.stillpondmd.com
Donate by mail:
Still Pond Preservation Inc.
Rob Ditmars, Treasurer
Box 89 Still Pond MD 21667
STILL POND was once a hub of commerce. By the late 1860s and 1870s, Kent County’s peach industry was starting to roll. For example, a June 1869 newspaper ad offered nearby Bloomfield Farm for sale, 212 acres with 6,000 peach trees and 1,000 apple trees.
By 1877, both George Washington Covington and George W. Harper had stores at the crossroads that prospered over the next 50 years. They’re both there today. Harper’s (or Medders’) became a boatbuilding shop and gallery. Restored by the late Frank Huggins, it’s listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Still Pond itself is a National Register Historic District. Covington’s original mercantile venture became the Still Pond Market, a building at least 130 years old. Covington started his village business about 20 years earlier than that.
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