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Lower Eastern Shore Heritage Area
 Goals
Concern for the well-being of the lower Eastern Shore communities and resources is not new, but attempts to coordinate conservation and sensitive development of the region's unique assets have been largely handled by individual counties and communities concerned with their own jurisdictions. The goals of the Lower Eastern Shore Heritage Committee are centered on focusing “heritage tourism” as well as conservation of historic, cultural, and natural resources in a regional approach. In this manner, a larger picture of regional “heritage tourism” will serve better all counties and municipalities involved and at the same time reduce the amount of duplication inherent in tourism development targeted on a county-by-county basis.
The essential tenets of this approach are:
recognition of the important natural and living, cultural and historic, as well as economic
and recreational resources in Somerset, Worcester, and Wicomico counties;
aiding in the promotion of Somerset, Worcester, and Wicomico counties' resources;
targeting public and private funding to achieve local, state, and private actions and
partnerships;
coordinating the more effective application of federal, state, and local programs.
Location
The lower Eastern Shore counties of Somerset, Worcester and Wicomico encompass a vast region stretching from the shorelines of Tangier Sound and Chesapeake Bay to the washed beaches of the seaboard coast. Located between the State of Delaware on the north and the State of Virginia to the south, the tri-county region is a portion of what is known as the Delmarva peninsula.
Management
The Lower Eastern Shore Heritage Committee, Inc., a private, nonprofit organization, using a professional coordination staff working in concert with the Committee's board, will serve as the supervisor of the heritage area program and action plan. As such, the LESHC is envisioned as an entity that will maintain a regional overview of heritage resources and will encourage and support the preservation and protection of those resources while at the same time enhance regional economic development through the locally endorsed heritage area action plan.
Management Plan
Preparation of a management plan approved by the Maryland Heritage Areas Authority is a requirement for becoming a Maryland “Certified” Heritage Area. The approved Management Plan includes information on the boundaries of the Certified Heritage Area and “Target Investment Zones,” and presents the heritage area’s vision and goals and the strategies, projects, programs, actions, and partnerships that will be implemented to accomplish them.
Management Plan not currently available online.
Contact Information
Ms. Sharon Scheuer, Executive Director
Lower Eastern Shore Heritage Committee, Inc.
Mailing address:
P.O. Box 4601
Salisbury, MD 21803
Office location:
212 W. Main Street
Gallery Bldg., Suite 301C
Salisbury, MD 21083
410-677-4706
410-677-4707 (fax)
E-mail: leshc1@aol.com
Website: www.skipjack.net/le_shore/heritage/
Last updated: January 7, 2008
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