In this issue: -REMINDER: HPD is moving -LaFayette is Georgia's newest CLG -National Register news -Kirkwood Historic District -Boyd Mill Place -The Georgia Trust to hold 2010 Places in Peril reception -The Best Places to Buy an Old House -Available positions in Georgia -Executive Director, Cobb Landmarks -Environment and Design professor, UGA -Available grants REMINDER: HPD is moving The Historic Preservation Division of the Department of Natural Resources is moving back into state offices at the end of this month. Our office will have limited service on October 26-27, will be closed October 28 through November 3rd, and will have limited service November 4-6. Environmental Review, Historic Resources Survey and National Register files will be unavailable to researchers for two weeks, from Monday, October 26 - Friday, November 6. October 10-16, 2009 Not a member? Subscribe here. Preservation events calendar Check the Events Calendar at www.gashpo.org for complete listings by date. This week's new listings October 20 - Three Rivers RC Historic Preservation Meeting and Open House - in partnership with HPD - Newnan - RSVP to Leigh Burns at leigh.burns@dnr.state.ga.us or 404-6515181 October 21 - "Sharing Southern Treasures: Friends and Flora" - lecture by Dr. William C. Welch McElreath Hall, Atlanta History Center - www. atlantahistorycenter.com/Page.asp? id=97&eventid=90 October 23 - Gullah/Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor Commission quarterly meeting Savannah - contact Michael Allen, NPS Gullah Geechee Coordinator, at 843-881-5516, x12 or visit www.nps.gov/guge October 24 - Dead Men Do Tell Tales - Cemetery tour - Funded in part through a grant facilitated by HPD - Marietta - www.cobblandmarks.com/ programs.php or call 770-794-5601 or 770-426- To make appointments before or after these dates, please call Lynn Speno at 404-651-5911 for Survey and National Register files or Michelle Volkema at 404-651-6546 for Environmental Review files. As of November 1, 2009 our new address will be: 254 Washington Street, SW; Ground Level; Atlanta, GA 30334. All phone numbers, fax numbers and email addresses will remain the same. Our new building is at the corner of Trinity and Washington streets facing Atlanta City Hall. A map of the area, including public parking lot locations, is available at www.parking.gba.ga.gov/t2/GBAParkingMap. pdf. LaFayette is Georgia's newest CLG The National Register-listed Walker County Courthouse is located in LaFayette. 4982 March 11, 2010 - 2010 Georgia Women of Achievement Induction Ceremony - Macon - www. georgiawomen.org March 25-26, 2010 - Historic House Museum Issues & Operations workshop - presented by AASLH in partnership with the National Trust Atlanta History Center - www.aaslh.org/hhissues. htm National and state conferences and meetings (listed in previous newsletters) October 19-21 - Nationwide Cemetery Preservation Summit - held by the National Center for Preservation Technology and Training - Nashville - www.ncptt.nps.gov/index.php/ nationwide-cemetery-preservation-summit/ October 20-21 - A Race Against Time: Preserving Our Audiovisual Media - Atlanta - http://guest. cvent.com/EVENTS /Info/Summary.aspx?e=1ab44fbf-f482-4894-87653ce15b9178ad October 22 - Developing Effective Community Revitalization Strategies Using Georgia's Community Redevelopment Statutes and Incentives - Savannah - www.mainstreetgeorgia. org/events /news.aspx?id=31 October 29-31 - Pioneer America Society Annual Conference - Pipestem Resort State Park, West Virginia - www.pioneeramerica.org /conference_information.htm October 31-November 21 - 50th Seminar for Historical Administration - Indianapolis - www. aaslh.org/histadmin.htm On September 30, 2009 the City of LaFayette (Walker County) was designated a Certified Local Government (CLG) by the National Park Service. Catherine Edgemon, Lafayette's Main Street and Economic Development Director, spearheaded the project and was assisted by Dan Latham, preservation planner with the Northwest Georgia Regional Commission. LaFayette is Georgia's 76th CLG. Any city, town, or county that enacts a historic preservation ordinance enforced through a local preservation commission and has met other outlined requirements is eligible to become a CLG. For more information, please visit our Web site at www.gashpo.org/content/displaynavigation.asp? TopCategory=33. National Register news Kirkwood Historic District The Kirkwood Historic District in Atlanta (DeKalb County) November 2-6 - Preservation in the City Without Limits: Association for Preservation Technology International (APT) conference - Los Angeles www.apti.org/conferences/ conference-current.cfm November 4 - 2010 Georgia Trust Places in Peril Announcement & Reception - Rhodes Hall, Atlanta - www.georgiatrust.org/news/events/event. php?id=35 November 9 - Effective Fundraising Planning Fox Theatre Institute seminar - Atlanta - www. foxtheatreinstitute.org or email Carmie McDonald at carmie.mcdonald@foxtheatre.org November 13 - Historic Real Estate seminar National Trust for Historic Preservation and ERA Savannah - www.era.com/eraresources /featuredservices/nationaltrust.jsp November 14 - Georgia Trail of Tears Association meeting - LaFayette - www.gatrailoftears.com/ events.htm November 17 - Recovery Act Section 106 Training - taught by ACHP staff in cooperation with HPD - Atlanta - www.achp.gov/106recovery. html December 7-8 - NEPA Compliance and Cultural Resources - NPI Seminar, in cooporation with GDOT and HPD - Atlanta - www.npi.org/semicrec.html December 9-10 - National Preservation Institute seminar on Section 4(f) Compliance for Transportation Projects - Atlanta - www.npi.org/ sem-4f.html or contact NPI at 703-765-0100 or info@npi.org February 13, 2010 - Georgia Days Birthday Bash and Awards Gala - Georgia Historical Society - was listed in the National Register on September 24, 2009. Kirkwood had only a few farmhouses and country estates when the first electric streetcar from Atlanta arrived in 1891. By the time it was annexed by Atlanta in 1922, it was a booming middle-class streetcar suburb. The height of growth was in the early decades of the 20th century, spurred by the efforts of several prominent real estate developers, such as George and Forrest Adair. A new housing boom occurred after World War II, but it reached its capacity by the late 1950s and early 1960s. In the 1960s Kirkwood experienced racial tensions and "white flight" after its schools were integrated. It is currently undergoing another resurgence and demographic shift. The Kirkwood Historic District is a large and diverse neighborhood of single-family homes, apartments, commercial buildings, schools, churches, gas stations, industrial buildings, and parks. Its historic resources reflect the evolution from rural area to independent city to Atlanta streetcar (and later automobile) suburb. Boyd Mill Place Savannah - www.georgiahistory.com/stories/112 March 25-26, 2010 - History and Heritage Tourism: Discovering Georgia's Community Landmarks - Warm Springs - www.gashpo.org/ content/ displaycontent.asp?txtDocument=460 or contact Conference Coordinator Carole Moore at carole. moore@dnr.state.ga.us or at 404-463-8434 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. Submit your listings to: helen.talley-mcrae@dnr. state.ga.us. The Boyd Mill Place, also called Davenport's Mill and Hearon's Mill, a two-story, wood-frame gristmill in rural Webster County 13 miles southwest of Plains, was listed in the National Register on September 24, 2009. Built circa 1870, the mill is an excellent example of a rural gristmill. Gristmills, which ground corn into meal, were often tall buildings in which grains were moved from floor to floor by conveyor belts and chutes. These utilitarian buildings were flexible enough to allow the addition of a sawmill. The Boyd mill is the last surviving gristmill in Webster County and among the few gristmills in Georgia that retains its processing machinery. For more on these and other listings visit www.gashpo.org/ content/displaycontent.asp?txtDocument=375. The Georgia Trust to hold 2010 Places in Peril reception The Campbell Chapel AME Church in Americus was included in the 2009 Places in Peril list. The Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation will announce its 2010 Places in Peril list at a reception to be held at Rhodes Hall on November 4. The Places in Peril program seeks to identify and preserve historic sites threatened by demolition, neglect, lack of maintenance, inappropriate development, or insensitive public policy. The event will be free to members and $25 for non-members. For more information on the event visit www.georgiatrust.org/news/ events/event.php?id=35. For information on the Places in Peril program visit www.georgiatrust.org/what/ places_in_peril.php. The Best Places to Buy an Old House PreservationDirectory.com has teamed up with This Old House magazine to promote their search for "The Best Places to Buy an Old House." An upcoming issue and Web feature from TOH will feature the 3rd annual "The Best Places to Buy an Old House" article, which strives to identify affordable or exceptional homes in historic neighborhoods and districts across the United States. Nominations are being sought for historic districts, towns, or cities. Last year's list included the entire City of Newnan. For more information visit www.preservationdirectory.com/ PreservationBlogs /ArticleDetail.aspx?id=1527&catid=18. Available positions in Georgia Executive Director, Cobb Landmarks Cobb Landmarks & Historical Society is seeking an Executive Director to provide leadership, to be responsible for administrative, organizational, and financial management, and to be an advocate for the organization and historic preservation in the community. View a PDf with application instructions at www2.gsu.edu/~wwwher/ about/091012.pdf. Applications are due by October 30. Environment and Design professor, UGA The University of Georgia is seeking applicants for an assistant/associate professor position in the College of Environment and Design. The selected candidate will be expected to teach in the new graduate program in Environmental Planning and Design, pursue scholarly research, and provide public service and outreach. View a PDF with application instructions at www.ced.uga.edu/pdfs/ epposition2010.pdf. Applications are due by December 8. Available grants Battlefield Project Grants, American Battlefield Protection Program of the National Park Service The American Battlefield Protection Program (ABPP) of the National Park Service invites non-profit groups, academic institutions, and local, regional, state, and tribal governments, and other private sector organizations to submit applications for grants. The purpose of this grant program is to provide seed money for projects that lead directly to the identification, preservation and interpretation of battlefield land and/or historic sites associated with battlefields. Project funding has ranged from $5,000 to $80,000. For more information visit www.nps.gov/history/ hps/abpp/grants /battlefieldgrants/2010grants.htm. Applications must be postmarked by January 2, 2010. National Endowment for the Humanities, Division of Public Programs grants The Division of Public Programs at the National Endowment for the Humanities funds public projects at museums, libraries, historic sites, and other historical and cultural organizations. The organization offers grants that support historic site interpretation, exhibits, reading or film discussion series, symposia, and digital projects. For more information contact the Division of Public Programs, 202606-8269 or www.neh.gov. The application deadline for funds from the America's Historical and Cultural Organizations and Interpreting America's Historic Places programs is January 13, 2010. Coastal Incentive grants, Georgia Coastal Resources Division The Coastal Resources Division of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources is administering Coastal Incentive grants to Qualified Local Governments, non-DNR state agencies, and educational institutions within the 11-county coastal area. Successful grants allow regional and local coastal issues to be defined and addressed creatively and proactively at the grass-roots level. For more information visit http://crd.dnr.state.ga.us/content /displaynavigation.asp?TopCategory=25. Applications are due by January 15, 2010. Send any news items, questions, or comments to helen.talley-mcrae@dnr.state.ga.us. Our mailing address is: Georgia Historic Preservation Division Department of Natural Resources 34 Peachtree Street, NW, Suite 1600 Atlanta, GA 30303 Add us to your address book Copyright (C) 2009 Georgia Historic Preservation Division All rights reserved. Update your profile Unsubscribe stuggle@uga.edu from this list.