Preservation Georgia online, Feb. 5-11, 2007

Preservation Georgia Online February 5-11, 2007 In this issue: National Register news Regional planner news Georgia Heritage Grants help preserve African American coastal resources Grants available Preservation Events Calendar Subscription Information
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National Register news
At the January 2007 Georgia National Register Review Board meeting, the following properties were recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places:
Morgan-Ille Cottage, Tybee Island, Chatham County Holliday-Dorsey-Fife House, Fayetteville, Fayette County 2 Collier Road Apartments, Atlanta, Fulton County 22-24 Collier Road Apartments, Atlanta, Fulton County General Electric Company Repair Shop and Warehouse, Atlanta, Fulton County Isaac Roberts House, Roswell vicinity, Fulton County William Barker Whiskey Bonding Barn
Visit the National Register section of our Web site at http://hpd.dnr.state.ga.us/content/displaynavigation.asp?TopCategory=41.
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Regional planner news
Emily M. Conklin Foster is the new historic preservation planner in South Georgia RDC. She will be working closely with Brannyn Allen, the former preservation planner who is now Senior Planner with the South Georgia RDC. Ms. Foster has a Bachelor of Arts in History from Eckerd College, Saint Petersburg, Florida, and a Master of Arts in Historic Preservation, Goucher College, Baltimore, Maryland. She worked previously with the Ybor City Development Corporation, Tampa, Florida, and also interned with the City of Tampa and its Historic Preservation Commission. Emily, welcome to Georgia!
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Georgia Heritage Grants help preserve African American coastal resources
Since its beginning in 1995, the Georgia Heritage Grant Program has helped preserve many African American resources throughout the state. Grant funds have been used to stabilize, repair, and plan for the continued use of historic structures associated with African Americans, helping us connect with this rich heritage in Georgia. In this second installment of our Black History Month series, we highlight several coastal properties with outstanding cultural and historical significance.
Located on Sapelo Island, Farmer's Alliance Hall has received two Georgia Heritage Grants. In SFY 2002 the project received $8,100 for preparation of a historic structure report, including a conditions assessment, measured drawings, and a rehabilitation feasibility report. In SFY 2006, $20,000 was awarded to repair the foundation, windows, doors, trim, stairs, and siding. Members of the Hog Hammock community on Sapelo Island, which was settled prior to the Civil War and is today inhabited by descendants of the island's plantation slaves, constructed the Farmer's Alliance Hall building in 1929. It was used by the community as a meeting place for local chapters of three secret African American Masonic organizations: the Most Worshipful Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons, the Order of the Eastern Star, and the Evergreen Lodge of the Good Samaritans Number 109. The building was also used as a central gathering location for annual cultural festivals for the residents of Hog Hammock and visitors, a function that continues at the site to this day.
For the SFY 2003 round of grants, the Hamilton Plantation Slave Cabins received $18,500 for the repair of the deteriorated tabby walls and repair of the cypress trim on the doors, windows, and eaves. Hamilton Plantation was established in 1793 on Gascoigne Bluff on St. Simons Island for the production of cotton and shipping of oak and pine timbers. Of the several tabby slave cabins built on the plantation, only two remain. Each cabin is divided in the center by a fireplace, creating two rooms that housed two families. Since 1932, the Cassina Garden Club has used the buildings as a meeting place. The cabins were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.
The Ossabaw Island Foundation received $6,000 in SFY 2000 to complete a Historic American Building Survey (HABS) in order to properly document three slave and tenant houses at North End Plantation on Ossabaw Island. Ossabaw is an extraordinary combination of historic, cultural, and archaeological resources on Georgia's coast. Dr. Dave Crass, Georgia's state archaeologist, explains that the North End Plantation is "easily one of the most important African American

slave sites in the Southeast." The slave and tenant houses located on Ossabaw were constructed of tabby sometime after 1840, although the history of slaves on the island dates to as early as 1760 when North End plantation was established to harvest live oaks and grow indigo as a cash crop. Slave quarters are rare resources that have often been erased from the landscape, making Ossabaw of exceptional importance because it offers examples that are substantially intact.
More money could be available to help save African American resources, as well as other community landmarks, by increasing funds available for Georgia Heritage Grants. You can help us achieve this goal by ordering a Historic Preservation license plate. Twenty-two dollars of the tag fee is designated for the Georgia Heritage Grant Program. For more information, contact grants coordinator Carole Moore at 404-463-8434 or e-mail at carole_moore@dnr.state.ga.us. To view the plate and/or use the order form to reserve the plate, go to HPD's website at www.gashpo.org.
1000 tags must be ordered by December 2007 before these tags will be manufactured. Current tag orders are 458.
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Grants available
Federal Highway Administration, FY 2007 National Scenic Byways Program Grant. The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) has announced that $35 million in funding is available for the National Scenic Byways Program grant. Grants are provided to support projects that recognize, support, and preserve roads that have outstanding scenic, historic, cultural, natural, recreational, and archaeological qualities. Deadline: March 19, 2007, by the state Departments of Transportation to FHWA division offices (except for Indian tribes, which can submit grants directly). Local applicants need to contact their state byways coordinator for their state's deadline for local applicants. http://www.esri.com/grants/nonesri/07009_dot_byways.html
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Preservation events calendar
Check the Events Calendar at www.gashpo.org for complete listings by date. Tell us what your organization or community has planned by sending your listings for our online Events Calendar via e-mail to: helen_talleymcrae@dnr.state.ga.us.

Please note that items on the "Preservation Events Calendar" are events and meetings of interest to preservationists. It is not to be used for the detailed scheduling of meetings with HPD staff without contacting those individuals.
New additions
February 9 - March 29 - "Georgia in the 20th Century: Looking at the Past and Considering the Future" lecture series - statewide www.ugapress.uga.edu/gtc.html
February 12 - 274th Georgia Day Celebration - Georgia Historical Society Savannah - www.georgiahistory.com/GHS's%20Georgia%20Days.html
February 15 - 2007 Affordable Housing Application Workshop - Georgia Dept of Community Affairs - Atlanta www.dca.state.ga.us/housing/HousingDevelopment/programs/QAP2006docs.asp
February 22 Toys in America in the Early 19th & 20th Centuries lecture by Eric Alberta - Historic Augusta Augusta - www.historicaugusta.org or 706-724-0436
March 5-6 - Community Planning Institute - Georgia Department of Community Affairs and the Georgia Planning Association - Columbus www.dca.state.ga.us/development/PlanningQualityGrowth/programs/opqg.asp
May 4-5 - Historic Augusta's Downtown Loft Tour - Augusta, Georgia www.historicaugusta.org or 706-724-0436
November 5-8 - National Trail of Tears Association National Conference - Rome - www.nationaltota.org or totajerra@aol.com or tc12@bellsouth.net
Previously listed national and state conferences and meetings
February 8-10 GAAHPN annual meeting: What's New in the Old Neighborhood? - Augusta http://hpd.dnr.state.ga.us/content/displaycontent.asp?txtDocument=328
February 11 - 2007 Black History Month Essay and Public Speaking Contest: "African-Americans and the U.S. Constitution: A Mixed History" - submission deadline is January 19 - Georgia Historical Society - Savannah www.georgiahistory.com or 912-651-2125, ext. 17
February 13 - Historic Preservation Day at the Capitol & Legislative Reception Georgians for Preservation Action - Atlanta www.georgiatrust.org/get_involved/advocate.htm

February 15 2007 Under One Roof Housing Conference Fort Valley State University Cooperative Extension Program Fort Valley 478-825-6573 or torbertk@fvsu.edu
February 15-16 - Southern Garden Heritage Conference - State Botanical Garden of Georgia - Athens - 706-542-1244 or garden@uga.edu
February 26-28 Alliance of National Heritage Areas Annual Meeting and Congressional Reception Washington DC www.NationalHeritageAreas.com
March 6-8 A Critical Examination of Change: The Impermanent and Intangible in Preservation - 6th National Forum on Historic Preservation Practice Baltimore, MD 302-831-1050 or davames@udel.edu
March 8-10, 2007 - Spring 2007 Traditional Building Exhibition and Conference Boston - www.traditionalbuildingshow.com
March 10 - Georgia Chapter of the Trail of Tears Association meeting followed by the unveiling of a new Trail of Tears exhibit at the Funk Museum and the showing of the 2-hour film "The Trail of Tears: Cherokee Legacy" - Waleska badnil@alltel.net or 770-704-6338.
March 25-28 National Main Streets Conference Seattle http://conference.mainstreet.org
March 28-31 - Vernacular Architecture Forum Conference "Savannah and the Lowcountry" - Savannah - http://www.scad.edu/academic/majors/arlh/vaf/ or contact Daves Rossell, erossell@scad.edu
April 11-14 Alliance for Historic Landscape Preservation annual meeting Athens www.ahlp.org/docs/meetings.html
April 18-20 Heart and Soul of Georgia Bus Tour - Ga. Cities Foundation/GMA http://www.georgiacitiesfoundation.org/event_detail/default.asp?eventid=41930
April 22-28 - Georgia Cities Week - Cities: Service, Style & Soul - Georgia Municipal Assn. - http://www.gmanet.com/georgia_cities_week/
April 27-28 - Spring HPC Training - Georgia Alliance of Preservation Commissions - St Marys - www.uga.edu/gapc - 706-583-8047 or jmlewis@uga.edu

May 11 - Georgia National Register Review Board Meeting - Historic Preservation Division, DNR - Atlanta http://hpd.dnr.state.ga.us/content/displaynavigation.asp?TopCategory=41
May 18-20 - Georgia Trust Annual Meeting - Brunswick & the Golden Isles www.georgiatrust.org/historic_sites/annual_meeting.htm
May 20-27 - VI World Archaeological Congress - Kingston, Jamaica http://www.worldarchaeologicalcongress.org/
June 18-21 - Your Passport to Crossing Boundaries in Heritage Development: International Heritage Development Conference - Alliance of National Heritage Areas - Detroit, MI - http://www.nationalheritageareas.org/2007_conference.htm
June 23-30 - Preservation Leadership Training - National Trust for Historic Preservation - application deadline is March 30 - Owatonna, Minnesota http://www.nationaltrust.org/plt
September 5-8 - 2007 AASLH annual meeting - Relevance: The Bottom Line Atlanta - http://www.aaslh.org/anmeeting.htm
September 28 - Georgia National Register Review Board Meeting - Historic Preservation Division, DNR - Atlanta http://hpd.dnr.state.ga.us/content/displaynavigation.asp?TopCategory=41
October 2-6 - Preservation Matters!: 2007 National Preservation Conference Saint Paul, Minnesota - www.nthpconference.org
October 25-28 - 12th National Conference on Planning History - Society for American City and Regional Planning History (SACRPH) - Portland, Maine http://www.urban.uiuc.edu/sacrph/
January 17-19, 2008 - Third International Architectural Paint Research Conference - New York - www.aprconference.us
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