Preservation Georgia online, Oct. 2-6, 2006

Preservation Georgia Online October 2-6, 2006 In this issue: Since 1995, Twenty-Two Historic Schools Benefit from Georgia Heritage Grant
Program Draft-Georgia State Historic Preservation Plan 2007-2011: Building a
Preservation Ethic Reminder - Preservation 101 set for October 24 in Atlanta National Register news Positions available in Georgia Preservation Events Calendar Subscription Information
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Since 1995, Twenty-Two Historic Schools Benefit from Georgia Heritage Grant Program
Since its inception in 1995, the Georgia Heritage Grant Program has awarded money to help preserve twenty-two historic school buildings throughout the state. The money has been used to stabilize, rehabilitate, and help save these important educational landmarks that are so valued by their communities. One of the new SFY 2007 grants went to Chatooga Academy, in LaFayette, Walker County, which received $8,750.00 for a new roof and exterior repairs. The Academy had previously received a SFY 2006 predevelopment grant for a preservation plan. The brick building, built in 1835, served as a schoolhouse for nearly ninety years, and is believed to be one of the oldest brick school buildings in the state. For the SFY 2006 round of grants, the T.J. Elder School in Sandersville, Washington County received $20,000.00 for a new roof as well as foundation and floor repairs to convert the building into an educational and cultural center. The school was built in 1927-1928 and has been an important African American site for almost eighty years.
More money could be available to help save schools like these, 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.
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Draft-Georgia State Historic Preservation Plan 2007-2011: Building a Preservation Ethic
A draft of HPD's historic preservation plan is now available on our website www.gashpo.org
Under the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, each State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) is charged with developing, and revising as needed, a statewide historic preservation plan. For the past year, through public forums, questionnaires, meetings and research, the Historic Preservation Division (HPD) has been working on an update to Georgia's historic preservation plan (20012006). Once finalized, the updated plan will guide our work for the next five years (2007-2011), and can provide common direction for all organizations and individuals who support the preservation of Georgia's historic places.
We welcome your comments on this draft. Please note that, although not provided in this draft, the final version of the plan will include photographs and other graphics. Please send your comments to Karen_AndersonCordova@dnr.state.ga.us, by October 31, 2006. You may also send written comments to the Historic Preservation Division, Attention- Karen AndersonCordova, 34 Peachtree Street, Suite 1600, Atlanta, Georgia 30303.
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Reminder - Preservation 101 set for October 24 in Atlanta
Register now for this year's Preservation 101: A Georgia Orientation seminar, Tuesday, October 24 in Atlanta.
Who should attend? Anyone who has not attended a previous Preservation 101 orientation, is new to historic preservation in Georgia and wants to learn about services and programs provided by the state historic preservation office (Historic Preservation Division) and the state nonprofit preservation organization (The Georgia Trust). You may download the form from HPD's Web site at http://hpd.dnr.state.ga.us/content/displaycontent.asp?txtDocument=242 Questions? Contact Helen Talley-McRae at helen_talley-mcrae@dnr.state.ga.us or 404-651-5268.
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National Register news
The following properties were listed in the National Register of Historic Places on September 20, 2006:

Completed in 1939, the Catoosa County Courthouse is significant in architecture for being a fine example of a New Deal-era county courthouse built in the Colonial Revival style that retains most of its original features. Two memorials (one honoring war dead, the other an eternal flame) and two state historical markers are symmetrically placed on either side of the central walk. This funding supplemented local bond funding that was voted on in a local referendum in 1938. The building opened September 2, 1939, one day after World War II began in Europe, with a large public ceremony attended by 1,000 citizens.
The Effingham County Jail is a two-story, brick building in the Colonial Revival style, looking similar to the 1908 Effingham County Courthouse. The property is also significant in politics and government because as the county's only jail from its construction with PWA money in 1935 until 1993, it served a major role in law enforcement in the county, as part of the justice system, and as the visible home of the county sheriff, an elected official, who was the chief law enforcement officer of the county. The jail was deactivated once a new jail opened in 1993 and the building became a museum operated by the Historic Effingham Society.
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Positions available in Georgia
City of Kennesaw- Internship opportunity. Historic Planner intern request for ongoing program. Duties: working within Planning and Zoning Department with exposure to Historic Downtown planning projects and planning duties Citywide. Great opportunity to obtain practical experience- 20- 30 hours per week- flexible hours. Non budgeted program at this time. Contact: Darryl T. Simmons; Planning and Zoning Administrator; City of Kennesaw; dsimmons@kennesaw-ga.gov; 770-590-8268.
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Preservation events
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

Nothing new this week.
Previously listed national and state conferences and meetings
October 5-6 - "Heritage Tourism: Putting History to Work in Georgia" seminar Camilla - http://www.georgiatrust.org/whatsnew/heritage_tourism_workshops.htm
October 5-7 - Fall 2006 Traditional Building Exhibition and Conference Washington, DC www.traditionalbuildingshow.com/RandR/PDF/DC_Call_for_Presentation.pdf
October 6 Georgia Centennial Farm Awards http://hpd.dnr.state.ga.us/content/displaynavigation.asp?TopCategory=25 Georgia National Fair Perry - contact Donna Rocker, Georgia Farm Bureau Federation, at 800-342-1192, ext. 5365 for tickets.
October 6-7 - Fall Historic Preservation Commission Training - Georgia Alliance of Preservation Commissions - Rome - 706-583-8047 or jmlewis@uga.edu or http://www.uga.edu/gapc/.
October 7-15 Georgia Archives Week: "Faces of Georgia" www.soga.org
October 9-10 - National Housing & Rehabilitation Association Fall Forum Boston, Mass http://www.housingonline.com/Events/FallForum/tabid/554/Default.aspx
October 11-13 - 2006 Georgia Downtown Conference and Annual Awards Ceremony - Georgia Downtown Association and DCA - Valdosta kcarter@dca.state.ga.us, 404-679-0604
October 12-13 - "Financing Historic Theatre Rehabilitation Projects" professional development seminar - League of Historic American Theatres - Atlanta - register at http://www.lhat.org/pdf/LHAT_Atlanta_Financing_Brochure.pdf
October 12-15 - Annual Meeting of the Society for the History of Technology Las Vegas www.shot.jhu.edu/Annual_Meeting/Annual_Meeting_Main_Page.htm
October 19-20 - Preserve America Summit to mark the 40th anniversary of the passage of the National Historic Preservation Act - New Orleans http://www.achp.gov/summit/summit.html

October 19-29 - Georgia Council for the Social Studies annual conference Athens - www.gcss.net
October 24 - Preservation 101: A Georgia Orientation seminar - Atlanta - Historic Preservation Division and The Georgia Trust http://hpd.dnr.state.ga.us/content/displaycontent.asp?txtDocument=242
October 29 November 11 - Emergency Stabilization Workshop at the James Brown House, Ooltewah, Tennessee - http://www.heritageconservation.net/wsjames-brown-house.htm
October 31 - November 5 - National Trust's National Preservation Conference Pittsburg, PA https://www.nthpconference.org/
November 8-11 - Culture is the Spark: 8th Cultural & Heritage Tourism Alliance Conference - Atlanta, Georgia - http://www.chtalliance.com
January 4-7, 2007 - American Historical Association annual meeting: Unstable Subjects: Practicing History in Unsettled Times - Atlanta http://www.historians.org/annual/2007/index.cfm
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
March 8-10, 2007 - Spring 2007 Traditional Building Exhibition and Conference Boston - www.traditionalbuildingshow.com
March 28-31 - Vernacular Architecture Forum Conference "Savannah and the Lowcountry" - Savannah - www.vernaculararchitectureforum.org for more information, or contact Daves Rossell, erossell@scad.edu
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
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