Three years of hard work by the Rodgers Forge community association finally pays off when it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Ruth Gore, a resident of Rodgers Forge for 70 years, reflects on the community's past and present.
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"Move over Stoneleigh. Rodgers Forge is now also on the National Register of Historic Places.
The community recently gained that designation from the National Park Service. The process took nearly three years, according to Janice Moore, president of the Rodgers Forge community association.
"When you get it, it's hard-earned and, in a way, prestigious," Moore said. "But we knew we had a unique community, and it was something that should be preserved.
"We're not just another row home community," she said.
The association represents the Forge's 1,777 row houses built by Baltimore developer James Keelty and his sons between 1931 and 1957."
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