On March 8, Shelburneâs director of planning and zoning Dean Pierce received an email from the state advisory council on historic preservation asking for information about the Safe Harbor Shelburne Shipyard Marina.
âWe are reaching out to ask if you have any pertinent information about the history and/or significance of this property,â the email said. And it asked for the information to be sent by March 15 for a meeting three days later.
Now locals are worried that the shipyard, possibly the oldest continuously operating of its kind in the country, could lose its historic status.
Shelburneâs historic preservation and design review commission chair Fritz Horton said he was alarmed by the request and upset that so little time was given to gather information.