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In this issue: Save the dates: Statewide Preservation Conference and Georgia Trust Annual Meeting & Spring Ramble in Roswell, April 19-22 Latest issue of Reflections is now available on HPD's website Historic topo maps now online Call for papers, presentations and class sessions
Save the dates: Statewide Preservation Conference and Georgia Trust Annual Meeting & Spring Ramble in Roswell, April 19-22
Barrington Hall, Roswell HPD is pleased to announce that we are partnering with The Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation and the City of Roswell to host the 2012 Statewide Preservation Conference April 19-20. The Georgia Trust Spring Ramble and Annual Meeting will immediately follow the conference that weekend, April 20-22. Again this year we have a wonderful opportunity to provide preservation-based presentations on current topics, historic tours, and foster networking with fellow preservationists. We look forward to sharing more information about the conference in the months ahead.

December 10-16, 2011
Upcoming HPD-sponsored events
February 18 - Decatur Old House Fair - City of Decatur, DeKalb History Center and the Historic Preservation Division - Decatur
This week's new listings Check our online Calendar for complete listings.
February 4 - Southern Mills: Economically Smart, Socially Responsible symposium Athens-Clarke Heritage Foundation - Athens
February 4-5 - Georgia History Festival: Colonial Faire and Muster at Wormsloe State Historic Site - Georgia Historical Society - Savannah
Available grants
Battlefield Preservation Grants - American Battlefield Protection Program - applications due January 2, 2012
Preservation Services Fund Grants - National Trust for Historic Preservation - applications due February 1, 2012
Historic Preservation Fund grants for CLGs Historic Preservation Division, Georgia DNR postmark deadline is February 1, 2012
Watson-Brown Junior Board grants - Contact Michelle Zupan - applications due February 15, 2012
Modernism & Recent Past Program Grants National Trust for Historic Preservation - contact trustmodern@nthp.org for details

Latest issue of Reflections is now available on HPD's website
The December 2011 issue of Reflections features African American life on Ossabaw Island (above), one of Georgia's barrier islands. A number of archaeological studies have documented African American presence on the island from the 18th - 20th centuries. The National Endowment for the Humanities funded interpretive projects that educate the public about the people who lived there from enslavement through freedom. When African Americans migrated from Ossabaw to Pin Point in the late 1890s, their skills in shrimping, crabbing and oyster processing came with them. A Georgia Historical Society marker and the Pin Point Heritage Museum interpret their lives on the mainland. South-View Cemetery, Atlanta's 1886 cemetery built by and for African Americans, established an alternative burial site where blacks could be interred without the stigma of the segregated section in Oakland Cemetery. South-View's 100 acres are the final resting place for many prominent African American Georgians. Cell phone tours and guided walking tours are available to the public to aid the interpretation of significant persons buried there including businessmen, religious leaders and educators.
Historic topo maps now online

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For more than 125 years, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) topographic maps have accurately portrayed the complex geography of the Nation. Over 90,000 of the more than 200,000 maps in the Historical Topographic Map collection are now available for download. The USGS will continue to add maps to the collection through the next year, until their entire map library is online and available for public use.
Call for papers, presentations and class sessions
The Alliance for Historic Landscape Preservation is pleased to announce its 2012 annual meeting in Victoria, British Columbia, and the Program Committee invites proposals for presentations that will encourage lively discussions about cultural landscapes. The deadline for submissions is February 3.
The 2012 Association for Gravestone Studies Conference and Annual Meeting will be held at Monmouth University, West Long Branch, New Jersey, June 19 - 24. Proposals are solicited for scholarly papers, 20 minutes in length. Proposals are solicited for Participation/Class Sessions, of 50 minutes in length. The deadline for submissions is February 1.

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