Preservation Georgia online, Sept. 29-Oct. 5, 2012

In this issue: This week's edition is our last Latest issue of Reflections available online Attention Historic Dixie Highway enthusiasts! AASLH 2013 conference call for proposals
This week's edition is our last
HPD staff retreat summer 2000.
Sadly, after nearly 600 editions since the first one in November 2000, this is the final edition of Preservation Georgia Online. You can read the first edition online. Some notable items were: - the announcement of four new staff members; three are still working at HPD: Karen AndersonCordova, Jeanne Cyriaque and Bill Hover - Governor Roy Barnes announced that the Georgia Heritage 2000 Program awarded 25 grants totaling $307,000 for historic preservation projects throughout the state. - 19 Centennial Farm Awards were announced
We sincerely appreciate all the praise, thanks, feedback and submissions we've received from our readers over these last 12 years. THANK YOU!
You will still be able to find much of the same content in these other outlets:
Preservation Posts - some HPD news will be included in our monthly e-journal.
HPD's website's calendar - please send your preservation-related, events, meetings and conference submissions to Charlie Miller at charlie.miller@dnr.state.ga.us
HPD's Conferences & Training web page
HPD's Facebook page and on Twitter @GeorgiaSHPO
Please also consider subscribing to some of our partners' enewsletters, including: - The Georgia Trust: Headlines & Happenings weekly - South Carolina SHPO: Historic Preservation News and Notes monthly to find similar national news and grant announcements.
Latest issue of Reflections available online

September 29-October 5, 2012 - FINAL EDITION
Upcoming HPD-sponsored events
October 5 - Georgia Centennial Farm Awards - Historic Preservation Division of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources; Georgia Farm Bureau Federation; Georgia Department of Agriculture; Georgia Forestry Commission; Georgia National Fairgrounds and Agricenter and Georgia EMC - Perry
October 10-12 - Section 106:Agreement Documents - National Preservation Institute - Atlanta
October 16-18 - It's Time to Join the Voices: Sustainability & Southern Historic Preservation Conference Atlanta - HPD contact is Roy Edwards 404-463-8434
October 25 - Section 106 Training for Certified Local Governments sponsored by NPS/ACHP/HPD and City of Decatur - DeKalb History Center Decatur - contact Leigh Burns
This week's new calendar listings Check our online Calendar for complete listings.
October 6 - Boulevard Historic District with Pratt Cassity - Athens Heritage Walks - Athens
October 7 - UGA - South Campus Tour with Janine Duncan - Athens Heritage Walks - Athens
November 10 - Georgia Chapter of the Trail of Tears Association meeting Summerville
February 7-9 - The 8th Savannah Symposium: Modernities Across Time & Space - Savannah
April 9-11 - Section 106:An Introduction - National Preservation Institute - Atlanta
April 14-16 - 2013 National Main Streets Conference: Main Street and the Cultural Economy - New Orleans
April 16 - 2013 South Carolina Historic Preservation Conference - Columbia, SC
April 26-27 - SAVE THE DATE! 2013 State Historic Preservation Conference + HPC training + Ga Trust Annual Meeting & Spring Ramble - Milledgeville
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The October 2012 issue of Reflections, the publication of the Georgia African American Historic Preservation Network, is now available on HPD's website. This issue's features include: the preservation of the Sallie Ellis Davis residence (above) in Milledgeville and its adaptive use as an African American Cultural Center; Clayton County erects monument in the village of Rex in honor of First Lady Michelle Obama's enslaved ancestor; the Wallace Grove School in Morgan County, one of Georgia's one-room schoolhouses preserved by a community partnership; and the remains of 101 individuals discovered at Avondale Burial Place in southern Bibb County re-interred at Avondale Burial Place Cemetery.
Attention Historic Dixie Highway enthusiasts!

The Georgia Department of Transportation, along with New South Associates, invites you to one (or more!) of their 7 open houses to kick off the Dixie Highway in Georgia project, a statewide study of the history, geography, and roadside culture of the Dixie Highway. The first event will be held on Saturday, October 13 from 10 AM - 1 PM in the Atlanta area at the historic Waffle House Museum in Avondale Estates, right down the road from Decatur. To learn more about the events and to follow the project, check out and share the Dixie Highway in Georgia Facebook page or contact Jackie Tyson at jtyson@newsouthassoc.com
AASLH 2013 conference call for proposals
AASLH's next annual meeting, Turning Points: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Change, will be held in Birmingham, Alabama - September 18-21, 2013. The submission deadline for proposals is November 16, 2012.
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