2001-2002 biennial report [Oct. 2002]

2001-2002 Biennial Report
October 2002
Historic courthouses are symbols of community pride and serve as anchors for economic stability.
Washington County courthouse (above) was built from 1868-69 in High Victorian style with a Second Empire style clock tower. The old Baker County courthouse (at right),
built in 1900, suffered extensive flooding from the Flint River in 1925, 1929 and 1994. It has since been restored and houses several public service agencies.

Historic Preservation Division Staff
staff e-mail addresses: first_last@dnr.state.ga.us phone: 404/656-2840 fax: 404/651-8739 www.gashpo.org

Director's Office: Ray Luce
Division Director & Deputy SHPO 404/651-5061 Vivian Pugh
Administrative Assistant 404/651-5177
Management & Information Unit:
Carole Griffith Unit Manager & Deputy SHPO
404/651-5180 Nicole Short Information Specialist 404/651-5176 Sandra Garrett Office Coordinator 404/651-5178 Lois Johnson Budget Coordinator 404/651-5185 Cherie Bennett Grants Coordinator 404/651-5181 Lawana Woodson Budget & Grants Assistant 404/657-1051 Jim Lockhart Photographer/ Computer Coordinator 404/651-6778 Helen Talley-McRae Communications Coordinator 404/651-5268 Jeanne Cyriaque African American Programs Coordinator 404/656-4768
Georgia Civil War Commission: Barry Brown
Projects Coordinator 404/657-7294 Rich Elwell Administrator 404/657-1049

Archaeological Services Unit: David Crass
Unit Manager & State Archaeologist 404/656-9344
Christine Van Voorhies Archaeology Outreach Specialist
404/657-1367 Chip Morgan Staff Archaeologist 404/651-6433 Ronnie Rogers Staff Archaeologist 404/657-1042
vacant Review Archaeologist
404/651-6775 vacant
Review Archaeologist 404/463-6687
Survey and National Register Unit: Richard Cloues
Unit Manager & Deputy SHPO 404/651-5983 Ariel Lambert
Survey & Register Specialist 404/651-5911 Kenneth Gibbs
Survey Coordinator 404/651-6432
Gretchen Brock National Register Coordinator
404/651-6782 Steven Moffson Architectural Historian
404/651-5906 Ken Thomas
Historian 404/651-5568 Holly Anderson National Register Historian 404/651-6033

Technical Services Unit: Mary Ann Eaddy Unit Manager 404/651-5283 Kacey Cloues
Tax Incentives Specialist 404/651-5567
Martha Gravely Tax Incentives Coordinator
404/651-5566 Caroline Wright Preservation Architect
404/651-5287 William Hover Architectural Reviewer 404/651-5288
Planning & Local Assistance Unit: Karen Anderson-Cordova
Unit Manager 404/651-6461 Elizabeth Shirk Transportation Projects Coordinator 404/463-6687 Denise Messick Environmental Review Historian 404/651-6777 Sylvia Cleveland Environmental Review Specialist 404/651-6546 Serena Bellew Environmental Review Coordinator 404/651-6624
Lee Webb Community Planning Coordinator
404/651-6452 Dean Baker Architectural Review Officer 404/657-1043 Christine Laughlin Certified Local Government Coordinator University of Georgia Founders' Garden House 325 Lumpkin Street Athens, GA 30602 tel. 706/583-8047 fax 706/583-0320 e-mail: laughlin@arches.uga.edu

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Table of Contents
State Fiscal Year: SFY2001 = July 1, 2000 - June 30, 2001 SFY2002 = July 1, 2001- June 30, 2002
Historic Preservation Division Staff Table of Contents A Message From the Director Historic Preservation Planning GAAHPN - Georgia African American Historic Preservation Network Information & Education Environmental Review Historic Resources Survey National Register of Historic Places Our Programs and Services at Work Archaeology Protection & Education Certified Local Governments Preservation Tax Incentives Georgia Heritage Grants Historic Preservation Fund Grants State Stewardship Awards Preservation Achievement Awards Georgia Centennial Farms Our Mission and Vision

All photographs by Jim Lockhart except: Andrea Gerhart pages 5, 13 (middle right) and 19; Robert Ciucevich pages 7 (left) and 9; Michael C. Lee page 13 (middle left); Ronnie Rogers page 15 (bottom); Ray and Associates page 17; historic postcard from National Register file page 12 (top left); and historic photograph from Centennial Farms application page 13 (top left).
This publication has been financed in part with federal funds from the National Park Service, Department of the Interior, through the Historic Preservation Division, Georgia Department of Natural Resources. The contents and opinions do not necessarily reflect the views or policies of the Department of the Interior, nor does the mention of trade names, commercial products or consultants constitute endorsement or recommendation by the Department of the Interior or the Georgia Department of Natural Resources. The Department of the Interior prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, or disability in its federally assisted programs. If you believe you have been discriminated against in any program, activity, or facility, or if you desire more information, write to: Office for Equal Opportunity, National Park Service, 1849 C Street, Washington, D.C. 20240.

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A Message From the Director

Division Director Ray Luce 404/651-5061 ray_luce@dnr.state.ga.us

During the past year we have witnessed a remarkable popular outpouring of patriotic symbols. American flags in windows and cars, over buildings and along roadsides, have not been seen in such abundance since World War II. This outpouring of patriotism is in response to the tragedy of 9-11 and draws both from the tragedy of lost lives and from the direct attacks on symbols of our culture. Indeed, symbols have become the cornerstone of the counterattack against the terrorist atrocities. Symbols are protesting the attack on symbols.
Preservationists play an important role in preserving the authentic and tangible symbols of our heritage. Historic places, such as a national park, a prehistoric mound, or a revitalized downtown neighborhood become symbols themselves. Most of these places are preserved because people care and have made considerable efforts over the years to protect them.
American Indian tribal preservation officers have organized into a group called "The Keepers of the Treasures." This term could be applied to all who seek to save the physical embodiments of our history. These are treasures not necessarily in a monetary sense -- although they are the key to economic development all over America -- but as the authentic places where history occurred. Through these sites we can learn that those who came before us also endured struggles and hardship, but as a nation, we have survived.
Understanding these lessons is particularly important as society changes. There was a time when these lessons were passed from generation to generation as we worked together. Georgia's population continues to grow. The 2000 census found that the majority of Atlanta's residents were not born there. Rootlessness creates a present-mindedness that ignores our collective heritage.
We must continue to preserve our heritage not as nostalgia, or the desire to return to a seemingly simpler life, but to ensure that authentic places survive. In so doing, we can continue to understand that we are part of a larger heritage that we can learn much from.

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Historic Preservation Planning

New and Continuing Partnerships

Regional Development Centers (RDCs) The Historic Preservation Division (HPD) partially funds fourteen historic preservation planner positions across Georgia. HPD's Community Planning Coordinator works closely with the RDC historic preservation planners to develop yearly scopes of services that address each region's preservation needs.
In SFY2002, the South Georgia RDC's historic preservation planner began a survey project to identify all of the region's historic school buildings. Fitzgerald High School was built in 1909.
The Georgia Trust's new Living Places, Building Better Neighborhoods program partners neighborhood organizations with preservation professionals to develop plans to revitalize historic neighborhoods throughout the state.

The Historic Preservation Division's (HPD) Historic Preservation Planning program is committed to ensuring that Georgia's historic resources are promoted and included in planning activities throughout the state.
HPD's preservation planning activities include: assisting Regional Development
Centers and federal, state and local governments with implementation of planning legislation identifying trends that effect historic resources and developing initiatives in response coordinating with other agencies and organizations that effect historic resources

HPD works closedly with several Georgia Department of Community Affairs programs including: Main Street, Better Hometown and the Office of Downtown Development.

Atlanta Regional Commission's (ARC) Georgia Quality Growth Partnership is a coalition that addresses the effects of sprawl and promotes smart growth. In SFY2002, HPD began working with the ARC and The Georgia Trust to develop an information "tool kit" on historic preservation and smart growth.

Community Planning Coordinator Lee Webb
404/651-6452 lee_webb@dnr.state.ga.us

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Activities and Projects

The goals of the Georgia African American Historic Preservation Network (GAAHPN) are to increase awareness of African American heritage and to encourage the preservation of historic resources associated with black history.
The Historic Preservation Division's African American programs coordinator provides staff support for GAAHPN's volunteer Steering Committee, produces the quarterly newsletter Reflections, and provides technical assistance to persons interested in preserving African American historic resources.

SFY2001: Developed the quarterly newsletter Reflections, a publication designed to recognize the contributions of African Americans to Georgia's cultural and historic resources. The publication is provided to Georgia African American Historic Preservation Network members and Historic Preservation Division (HPD) partners.
Hosted the third annual conference of the Southeast Regional African American Preservation Alliance in Augusta.
Participated in African Reflections on the American Landscape, a National Park Service (NPS) conference. GAAHPN assisted NPS staff in organizing tours of historic African American resources in Atlanta including the Atlanta University Center, the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site and The Herndon Home.
In May 1981, the Thomas Jefferson Elder High and Industrial School was the first Georgia Rosenwald
school listed in the National Register of Historic Places. The Washington County Elderites, Inc. were honored
with a 2001 Preservation Award by The Georgia Trust.

SFY2002: Compiled an inventory of Georgia's Rosenwald schools. Collaborated with the southern office of National Trust for Historic Preservation (NTHP) to form the Rosenwald Initiative, a program designed to provide information and raise awareness of these endangered historic resources.

African American Programs Coordinator - Jeanne Cyriaque
404/656-4768 jeanne_cyriaque@dnr.state.ga.us

Recruited rural participants and provided programmatic support for Your Town, a design workshop in Plains sponsored by the University of Georgia School of Environmental Design, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the NTHP.
Presented information at workshops, dedication ceremonies, a statewide meeting on St. Simons Island and conferences to increase membership in GAAHPN to over 1,000 people.

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Information & Education

Case Study: 2002 State Preservation Conference in Macon

The Historic Preservation Division and The Georgia Trust co-sponsored the statewide preservation conference, February 28 and March 1 in Macon, along with Macon Heritage Foundation and the Urban Land Institute. Entitled, "Georgia Communities at the Crossroads: Growth Strategies and Solutions," the conference attracted a record-number 355 preservationists, archaeologists, planners and smart growth advocates. Three national experts on smart growth, economics and housing addressed the plenary sessions. Fifteen workshops and tours featured presentations on community planning, farmland, archaeology, downtowns, neighborhoods, historic schools, intown greenspace and transportation. The conference highlighted the role that historic preservation plays in smart growth, by recycling historic properties, landscapes and infrastructure; by encouraging livable and walkable commercial and residential neighborhoods, by providing affordable housing, and by preserving historic buildings and archaeological sites maintaining sense of place and commitment to heritage.
Broad Street (below) in historic downtown Macon.

The Historic Preservation Division's (HPD) Information and Education program works to heighten the general public's awareness of historic preservation and to maintain regular communication with the statewide preservation network. These goals are achieved through information available on HPD's Web site; the distribution of publications, press releases and a weekly electronic newsletter; and by sponsoring workshops and conferences.
The Information and Education program works closely with other groups across the state to promote heritage tourism and heritage education projects.

Richard Moe, (above right) president of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, addressed the opening session at the Douglass Theatre.

Communications Coordinator Helen Talley-McRae 404/651-5268
helen_talley-mcrae@dnr.state.ga.us

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Environmental Review

Case Study: The Tybee Island Light Station Head Keeper's Cottage

The environmental review program provides the planning framework for federal and state agencies to take into account the effects of their projects and actions on historic properties and archaeological sites.
The Historic Preservation Division assists federal and state agencies and local governments in complying with Section 106 and Section 110 of the National Historic Preservation Act, the Georgia Environmental Policy Act and the State Agency Historic Property Stewardship Program.
Environmental Review Coordinator - Serena Bellew
404/651-6624 serena_bellew@dnr.state.ga.us

Under a Programmatic Agreement with the Federal Highway Administration and Georgia Department of Transportation, the Historic Preservation Division (HPD) continues to play a key role in the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (TEA-21) program. HPD staff review project documents, plans, and reports; conduct site visits; and provide technical assistance related to compliance with provisions of Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, as amended. Georgia is one of the national leaders in implementing the TEA-21 program. It ranks highly in both the percentage of allocated funds expended and in the percentage of projects ready for contract.
The restoration of the Tybee Island Light Station Head Keeper's Cottage is an example of how TEA-21 funds are being used to preserve Georgia's transportation history. The Federal Highway Administration, through the TEA-21 program, provided $150,000 for the project with $300,000 matching funds provided by the project sponsor, the Tybee Island Historical Society.
The research and preservation methods employed by Tybee Island Historical Society director Cullen Chambers and project architect Dan Snyder to restore the house are exemplary and should serve as a model to historic preservationists throughout the state of Georgia. Upon completion, the circa 1881 cottage will serve as a house museum interpreting the life and role of the head light-keeper in the early 20th century. The museum was opened to the public on April 1, 2002.

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Historic Resources Survey

Case Study: Effingham County

The Effingham County Board of Commissioners sponsored a two-year survey of historic buildings, hoping to use the sur-

vey information in their planning activities. The previous survey,

done in 1975, produced 179 properties, but using current guide-

lines the 1997-1999 survey documented 813. The 42 buildings

from the earlier survey that were not resurveyed were presumed

destroyed in the years between the surveys, giving an attrition

rate of 23%, about average in Georgia.

Surprisingly, considering the age of Effingham County,

the construction dates for the county's historic buildings reflect

almost exactly those in the rest of the state: 5% built 1800-1859,

23% built 1860-1899, 65% built 1900-1939, and 14% built

1940-1989. Although synthetic siding is more prevalent in

Effingham County than statewide

(26% as opposed to 9%), many

more historic resources in the

county are individually eligible

for the National Register (78%)

than are eligible statewide (54%).

The two most popular house types

by far in the county are Georgian

cottages (21%), one-story houses

that are two rooms deep with central hallways, and bungalows (28%).

Masonic Lodge and Woman's Club: This 1948 community building in Guyton has an unusual combination of two distinct functions.

Knowing about historic resources through surveys is an essential first step in a community's preservation efforts and facilitates wise decisions about preserving individual buildings and neighborhoods.
The Historic Preservation Division (HPD) coordinates Georgia's Historic Resources Survey which collects and records information about extant historic structures on a countywide or communitywide basis including: architectural descriptions age, history, setting and
location photographs of buildings topographical maps keyed
to the buildings reports analyzing the
survey results and evaluating the significance of the surveyed properties

The following surveys were completed during:
SFY2001 - Bryan County, Douglasville, Effingham County (phase 2) and Rome (phase 2).

SFY2002 - Greensboro, Hancock County, Heard County, Jeffersonville, Kennesaw, Lavonia, Lowndes County (phase 1), Rome (phase 3), Savannah National Historic Landmark district, Seminole County, St. Marys and Tift County (phases 1 & 2).

Survey Coordinator Kenneth Gibbs 404/651-6432
kenneth_gibbs@dnr.state.ga.us

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National Register of Historic Places

The National Register of Historic Places is our country's official list of historic buildings, structures, sites, objects, and districts worthy of preservation. In addition to recognizing their historical, architectural, or archaeological significance, the National Register helps preserve historic properties through benefits and incentives.
The Historic Preservation Division nominates eligible properties to the National Register. Property owners, nonprofit organizations, local governments, and others interested in preserving their historic properties are invited to propose nominations.

Georgia properties listed during SFY2001:
Baker: Notchaway Baptist Church and Cemetery, Newton vicinity Ben Hill: Miles V. Wilsey House, Fitzgerald Burke: McCanaan Missionary Baptist Church and Cemetery, Sardis vicinity Chatham: Bonaventure Cemetery, Savannah Clarke: Brightwell Shotgun Row, Athens Coweta: Oak Grove Plantation, Newnan vicinity Crawford: Williams-Moore-Hillsman House, Roberta vicinity DeKalb: Stone Mountain Historic District, Stone Mountain; United States Post
Office, Decatur Echols: Corbett Farm, Lake Park vicinity Fulton: building at 161 Spring Street, Atlanta; Means Street Historic District,
Atlanta; Martin Luther King, Jr. Historic District (Boundary Increase), Atlanta; Western Electric Company Building, Atlanta; Westinghouse Electric Company Building, Atlanta. Gilmer: Cartecay Methodist Church, Ellijay vicinity Gwinnett: Isaac Adair House, Lawrenceville vicinity Habersham: Loudermilk Boarding House, Cornelia Hancock: Sparta Cemetery, Sparta Jackson: Braselton Historic District, Braselton Lamar and Monroe: Johnstonville-Goggins Historic District, Johnstonville and Goggins Paulding: Hiram Colored School, Hiram Polk: Cedartown WaterworksWoman's BuildingBig Spring Park Historic District, Cedartown Pulaski: St. Thomas AME Church, Hawkinsville Spalding: Spalding County Courthouse and Jail, Griffin Tattnall: Smith Hotel/Nelson Hotel, Reidsville Thomas: Stevens Street Historic District, Thomasville Toombs: Robert and Missouri Garbutt House, Lyons Troup: East Main Street-Johnson Street Historic District, Hogansville; Royal Theater, Hogansville; Stark Mill and Mill Village Historic District, Hogansville

National Register Coordinator Gretchen Brock 404/651-6782
gretchen_brock@dnr.state.ga.us

McCannan Baptist Church, an African American church in rural Burke County, was constructed in 1912.

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Georgia properties listed during SFY2002:
Bibb: Cherokee Brick and Tile Company, Macon Chatham: Gordonston Historic District, Savannah;
New Ogeechee Missionary Baptist Church, Savannah vicinity Chattooga: Riegel Hospital, Trion Cherokee: Canton Cotton Mills No. 2, Canton Clarke: Winterville Historic District, Winterville Cobb: George A. Power House, Marietta vicinity; Bethel AME Church, Acworth Coweta: Newnan Cotton Mill and Mill Village Historic District, Newnan DeKalb: Winnona Park Historic District, Decatur Decatur: First African Missionary Baptist Church, Bainbridge Dodge: Eastman Bus Station, Eastman Douglas: John Thomas Carnes Family Log House, Winston Early: Blakely Court Square Historic District, Blakely; James and Clara Butler House, Blakely Forsyth: Cumming Bandstand, Forsyth Fulton: Empire Manufacturing Company Building, Atlanta; Inman Park (additional documentation approved) and Inman Park Historic District Boundary Increase, Atlanta; Spotswood Hall, Atlanta; Whittier Mills Historic District, Atlanta Greene: Siloam Historic District, Siloam; Siloam Junior High School, Siloam Harris: Whitesville Methodist Episcopal Church, Whitesville Jackson: Paradise Cemetery, Jefferson; Oak Avenue Historic District, Jefferson Laurens: Dublin Commercial Historic District, Dublin Lumpkin: Holly Theatre, Dahlonega Madison: Paoli Historic District, Paoli; Colbert School, Colbert McIntosh: West Darien Historic District, Darien Meriwether: Bulloch Family House, Warm Springs; Greenville Presbyterian Church and Cemetery, Greenville vicinity; Lone Oak Academy, Lone Oak vicinity; Manchester Community Building, Manchester Morgan: Buckhead Historic District, Buckhead Muscogee: Dinglewood Historic District, Columbus Newton: Porterdale Historic District, Porterdale Pickens: Cagle House, Tate vicinity Schley: Woodall-Patton House and Post Office, Ellaville vicinity Seminole: Donalsonville Historic District, Donalsonville Taylor: Union Methodist Church Cemetery-Hays Campground Cemetery, Butler vicinity Thomas: Paradise Park Historic District (boundary increase), Thomasville Troup: LaGrange Commercial Historic District, LaGrange Union: Raburn-Casteel House, Blairsville vicinity Warren: Warrenton Downtown Historic District, Warrenton Washington: Sandersville Commercial and Industrial District, Sandersville Whitfield: Western and Atlantic Railroad Tunnel, Tunnel Hill Wilkes: Gartrell Family House, Tignall vicinity Worth: Sylvester Commercial Historic District Boundary Increase, Sylvester

The Loudermilk Boarding House (above) in Habersham County is a two-story, frame, New South-type house built in 1907. The Braselton Historic District (below) in Jackson County encompasses historic residential, commercial, community landmark, and agricultural/industrial resources built from the late 19th to early 20th century.
The Cherokee Brick and Tile Company (above) in Bibb County is among the oldest brick manufacuring companies in Georgia still in operation.

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Our Programs and Services at Work
Case Study: Valdosta, Lowndes County
A historic resources survey of Valdosta and Lowndes County was conducted in 1980. A new multi-phase survey, sponsored by Valdosta Heritage Foundation, began in 2000.

The Crescent (above), a Neoclassical style house built circa 1900, became the county's first National Register listing in 1980. Brookwood North, an early 20th century streetcar suburb, was listed as a National Register historic district in 1995. This two-story Colonial Revival style apartment building (above right) was built in 1937.

Valdosta became a Certified Local Government in 1985, which qualified it to receive grants from the Heritage Preservation Fund. The Dosta Theater (above) received a development grant in 1994. In 1997, Valdosta received grants for design guidelines and a rehabilitation workshop.

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The Zipperer Farm, located four miles southwest of Valdosta, was honored as a Centennial Family Farm in 1997. The Dees family (at left) obtained the land in the 1823 land lottery.

This building (above) at 105-111 West Central Avenue received final approval as a certified rehabilitation project for the purposes of both tax incentives programs in 2000. Constructed in 1906, it is now used for retail space on the first floor and residential on the upper floors.

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Built in 1845, Roberts House (above) is known as the oldest house in Valdosta. The Roberts family owned the house for 100 years and donated it to the Valdosta Heritage Foundation (VHF) to ensure its restoration. VHF received Georgia Heritage Grants in SFYs 2000 and 2001. After stabilization work is complete, Roberts House will be open to the public for tours and social events.
Dasher High School was built in 1929 as Valdosta's third public high school for blacks. Now serving as a community center, it will be included in the school survey currently being conducted by the South Georgia Regional Development Center's historic preservation planner.
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Archaeology Protection & Education

State Stewardship at Resaca Battlefield

Georgia has been inhabited for over 12,000 years and has some of the most important archaeological sites in the country. Archaeology provides the only means to learn about the lives of most of these people.
The Archaeological Services Unit within the Historic Preservation Division (HPD) helps ensure proper management and protection of state-owned archaeological resources by directing research and surveying sites, training state land managers and law enforcement personnel and assisting with comprehensive planning. HPD also offers archaeological technical assistance and educational materials to individual citizens, local governments, and other organizations.
Archaeology Outreach Specialist - Christine Van Voorhies 404/657-1367
christine_van_voorhies@dnr. state.ga.us

The Department of Natural Resources (DNR) manages properties that include some of the most important reported archaeological sites in Georgia. The ongoing planning for Resaca Battlefield in Gordon County illustrates the vital role HPD's Archaeological Services Unit plays in the stewardship of stateowned land. The property includes trenches, rifle pits, artillery emplacements and other features. Using Global Positioning System (GPS) technology, Geographic Information Systems, and working with Georgia Tech, HPD archaeologists were able to accurately map every visible surface feature on the battle site. Artifacts found during the investigation help tell the story of troop movements across the battlefield. GPS and archaeological surveys will help park managers avoid impacts to intact areas of the site and provide material for interpretive programming that will include the negative impact of site looting.
Anti-Looting Legislation
Looting of archaeological sites destroys their integrity and, in some cases, their scientific and historical value. The advent of Web-based auction sites has turned a serious resource management issue into a critical problem. With Indian spear points fetching $4,000 and Revolutionary War-related artifacts commanding prices up to $10,000, artifact looting has become endemic across the southeast. While some looting is carried out by people who do not understand the destructiveness of their actions, much looting is done by individuals who take artifacts from private property without the owner's consent and sell them to finance other crimes, especially drug purchases and manufacture. Thus, looting destroys our past and fuels other violations. Believing that often the best stewards of resources are educated private landowners, HPD and DNR Law Enforcement personnel developed enhancements to existing Georgia state law that give property owners an additional tool with which to safeguard sites on their land.

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Education Programming on Ossabaw Island

The best way to conserve archaeological sites is with citizen education programs. A good example is Nature's Adventure at Ossabaw Island, offered by the Boy Scouts under a cooperative agreement with DNR and the Ossabaw Foundation. During the nine-day campout in June 2002, DNR naturalists, scientists, archaeologists and historians provided information and conducted land and water ecological tours. Scouts helped archaeologists lay out grid lines using compass and tape, map points using GPS, dig shovel tests and excavate what may be a slave cabin site. Scouts were amazed to find that people had been using the spot for 4000 years where they saw no indication on the surface. Through archaeology, the participants now have a better understanding of how people have related to the coastal environment over time.
Underwater Archaeology

Volunteers and professionals (above) working together at a historic mill site in Greene County

Georgia, unlike our neighboring coastal states, has no underwater archaeology program. In fact, with the exception of limited studies conducted under federal mandate, Georgia has never carried out a survey to discover what resources lie in our waters. However, we know enough from neighboring states' findings that our archaeological heritage includes submerged Indian canoes thousands of years old, Revolutionary War coastal shipwrecks and abandoned towns under our reservoirs. Such resources have the potential to tell us about a little-documented aspect of Georgia's past and serve as eco-tourism attractions.
HPD has begun developing a plan to manage these valuable resources. A study of successful programs in other states has been conducted to provide Georgia with a basis for resource management recommendations. HPD received a U. S. Navy Legacy Grant to develop a management plan for Navy-owned shipwrecks. Simultaneously, a survey of extant documentary resources has been commissioned to learn as much as possible from written records. With these studies in place, Georgia will be in a strong position to move forward with an efficient underwater archaeology survey.

Georgia has a great variety of underwater archaeological resources, including this intact pier from a bridge (above) built by former slave Horace King in 1838 (Troup County).

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Certified Local Governments

Case Study: Covington

The Certified Local Government (CLG) program assists local governments with integrating historic preservation concerns into local planning decisions.
This program is administered by the Historic Preservation Division through a contract with the Public Service and Outreach office at the University of Georgia, School of Environmental Design. Technical and design assistance is provided to all CLGs including: presentations for preservation commissions, neighborhood associations, elected officials, and community groups; design guidelines workshops; and historic preservation commission training.
Certified Local Government Coordinator - Christine Laughlin
706/583-8047 laughlin@arches.uga.edu

Residents of Covington in Newton County have taken their future into their own hands. For nine days, September 20 through 28, 2000, the city participated in a design charrette lead by Andrs Duany of Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company (DPZ). The result of the charrette was a master plan for downtown Covington, a vision for how the city might grow.
This master plan includes plans for two new traditional neighborhood developments and a new transit-oriented development. The goal of the new neighborhoods is to incorporate the historic character of the town into new development. Plans for the developments include mixed-use spaces, green space, and a bikeway. The innovative plans allow for mixed uses from single and multi-family residences to retail, civic, and office space. These new neighborhoods will better reflect the community's ideas about what makes Covington a good place to live and work than typical sprawl-type developments.
The charrette was a cooperative effort of DPZ, residents and officials of the city, developers, and the Arnold Foundation, a local philanthropic organization. One overarching theme characterized the charrette: to work together and plan for Covington's future before it's too late. Covington has not been spared the effects of sprawl, but residents see hope for the city's future. By implementing the DPZ plan along with innovative codes
and ordinances, the city New Certified Local Governments can preserve its unique
character and quality of SFY2001 - Brunswick and Covington life while accommodating SFY2002 - Cartersville, Douglasville, growth.
LaGrange, Sparta-Hancock County and Taylor County

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Preservation Tax Incentives

Case Study: Crane and Cherokee Cottages, Jekyll Island

Crane and Cherokee Cottages, located on Jekyll Island, underwent substantial rehabilitations and successfully participated in both the federal Rehabilitation Investment Tax Credit and the state Preferential Property Tax Assessment programs. The total amount invested was over $5,000,000. The rehabilitation projects began in March 2000 and received final certification in August 2001.
The cottages are contributing resources within the Jekyll Island Historic District, which was nominated to the National Register of Historic Places as the Jekyll Island Club in 1972 and declared a National Historic Landmark in 1978. The Jekyll Island Club was established in 1886 by a group of the country's wealthiest men who purchased the island with the intention of creating a private haven to escape the pressures of business. Its heyday was from 1919 to 1927.
Cherokee Cottage (right) was built in 1904. It was designed by an unknown architect in a simple Italian Renaissance style.
Crane Cottage (left) was constructed in 1917. Chicago architect, David Adler, designed the house in an eclectic style with Spanish influences.

The Historic Preservation Division administers federal and state tax incentives programs that encourage the adaptive use of neglected buildings, as well as stimulate economic growth and revitalization of historic neighborhoods and commercial areas.
The federal Rehabilitation Investment Tax Credit provides owners of incomeproducing historic structures the opportunity to apply for a federal income tax credit equal to twenty percent of the rehabilitation cost.
The state Preferential Property Tax Assessment program offers owners of both income-producing and residential historic properties the benefit of applying for an eight-year property tax assessment freeze. Technical assistance is available to ensure compliance with federal and state rehabilitation standards.

In Federal Fiscal Year 2001 (October 1, 2000 September 30, 2001) Georgia was ranked second nationally in the number of approved project proposals and completed rehabilitations certified by the National Park Service. This activity generated over $66,000,000 in revenue. Georgia consistently ranks among the top five states in totals for certified rehabilitation projects.

Tax Incentives Coordinator Martha Gravely 404/651-5566
martha_gravely@dnr.state.ga.us

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Georgia Heritage Grants

The Historic Preservation Division administers the Georgia Heritage Grant Program which offers matching grants on a statewide competitive basis to local governments and nonprofit organizations for the preservation of historic resources listed in the National and Georgia Registers of Historic Places.
Development projects include stabilization and rehabilitation activities, and predevelopment projects include the production of plans, construction documents and specifications.
Grants Coordinator Cherie Bennett
404/651-5181 cherie_bennett@dnr.state.ga.us

Georgia Heritage Grant recipients for SFY2001:
Appling: Bank of Surrency, Surrency - $5,000 Berrien: Alapaha School, Alapaha - $37,000 Bibb: Alexander II Elementary School, Macon - $10,500; Cannonball House,
Macon - $1,200 Chatham: West Broad Street YMCA Building, Savannah - $7,000 Chattooga: Riegel Hospital, Trion - $1,800 Coweta: Grantville Auditorium, Grantville - $20,000 Dodge: Eastman Bus Station, Eastman - $5,000 Floyd: Chieftains Museum, Rome - $5,000 Fulton: Herndon Home, Atlanta - $14,000 Hall: Gillsville Commercial Buildings, Gillsville - $35,000 Harris: Mountain Hill District Consolidated School, Fortson - $10,000 Jasper: Jasper County Community Center, Monticello - $10,000 Laurens: Captain Hardy Smith House, Dublin - $5,000 Lowndes: Roberts House, Valdosta - $10,000 Polk: Hawkes Children's Library, Cedartown - $23,000 Rabun: The Mary Hambidge House, Rabun Gap - $10,000 Randolph: Randolph County Courthouse, Cuthbert - $28,000 Thomas: Thomas County Courthouse, Thomasville - $7,500 Treutlen: Treutlen County Courthouse, Soperton - $2,000 Troup: Royal Theater, Hogansville - $16,000; West Point Public School,
West Point - $20,000 Turner: Turner County Jail, Ashburn - $5,000 Warren: Warrenton Gymnasium and Auditorium, Warrenton - $17,000 Wilcox: Wilcox County Courthouse, Abbeville - $2,000
Georgia Heritage Grant recipients for SFY2002:
Appling: Bank of Surrency, Surrency - $5,000 Candler: Candler County Jail, Metter - $5,500 Chatham: Fort Jackson, Savannah - $16,500; Fort Screven Guard House,
Tybee Island - $10,000 Cobb: Cowen Farmstead, Acworth - $4,500 Coweta: Moreland Knitting Mill Mercantile Building, Moreland - $9,000 Dodge: Eastman Bus Station, Eastman - $4,500 Evans: George W. DeLoach House, Hagan - $5,100 Fulton: Grant Park Fountains, Atlanta - $10,000 Gordon: William M. Taylor House, Resaca - $4,500 Habersham: Cornelia Community House, Cornelia - $18,000 Jenkins: Former Millen High School, Millen - $3,000 Laurens: Captain Hardy Smith House, Dublin - $13,000 Lee: Lee County Courthouse, Leesburg - $13,000 McDuffie: Hillman-Brown-Bowden House, Thomson - $20,000 McIntosh: Farmer's Alliance Hall, Sapelo Island - $8,100; Palmer Hotel/
Woodward House, Darien - $8,000 Monroe: Hubbard School, Forsyth - $9,000; Monroe County Courthouse,
Forsyth - $12,000 Newton: Newborn High School, Newborn - $24,500 Pickens: Tate Gym, Tate - $20,000 Putnam: Putnam County Jail, Eatonton - $16,100
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Richmond: Joseph Lamar Boyhood Home, Augusta - $14,500 Spalding: Spalding County Courthouse/Spalding County Jail, Griffin - $40,000 Sumter: Sexton's Office at Oak Grove Cemetery, Americus - $20,000 Taliaferro: Taliaferro County Courthouse, Crawfordville - $40,000 Tatnall: Glennwanis Hotel, Glennville - $5,100 Thomas: Thomas County Museum of History's Bowling Alley,
Thomasville - $11,000 Treutlen: Treutlen County Courthouse, Soperton - $8,500 Troup: Royal Theater, Hogansville - $17,000 Worth: Sylvester City Hall, Sylvester - $9,600
Roberts House in Lowndes County received
a Georgia Heritage Grant in SFY2001.
Historic Preservation Fund Grant recipients for SFY2001:
City of Americus, local district designation report - $2,400 City of Athens-Clarke County, design guidelines - $3,680 City of Augusta-Richmond County, design guidelines - $14,760 City of Brunswick, historic resources survey - $5,400 City of Cordele, historic resources survey - $3,600 City of Darien, predevelopment planning - $5,500 City of Fort Oglethorpe, historic resources survey - $2,700 City of Hawkinsville, National Register district nomination - $3,000 City of LaGrange, design guidelines - $10,000 City of Madison, design guidelines digitization project - $4,200 City of Milledgeville, design guidelines - $6,600 City of Monticello, informational brochure - $1,900 Taylor County, National Register district nomination - $4,500 City of Thomasville, design guidelines - $18,600 City of Washington, window repair at historic Gilmer House - $2,160
Historic Preservation Fund Grant recipients for SFY2002:
City of Atlanta, two historic context studies - $16,500 City of Augusta-Richmond County, historic resources survey - $5,500 City of Cedartown, National Register district nomination - $5,000 City of Cedartown, heritage education exhibit - $7,500 City of Kennesaw, cemetery preservation plan - $9,000 City of Madison, statewide historic preservation commission training workshop - $2,500 City of Roswell, archaeological survey and preservation plan for Roswell Mill
district - $18,000 City of West Point, National Register district nomination - $12,000

The Historic Preservation Division receives annual funding from the National Park Service (NPS) to carry out a statewide historic preservation program in participation with state and local governments, organizations, and the citizens of Georgia. Ten percent of the NPS funding is allotted for the Historic Preservation Fund (HPF) Grants that are awarded annually to Certified Local Governments on a competitive basis.
Eligible activities include: historic resource surveys preservation planning
activities & studies National Register
nominations educational activities
& publications archaeological surveys
and testing predevelopment plans
& specifications
Grants Coordinator Cherie Bennett
404/651-5181 cherie_bennett@dnr.state.ga.us

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State Stewardship Awards

As part of the State Agency Historic Property Stewardship Program, the Historic Preservation Division sponsors the State Stewardship Awards.
The Governor's Award for Excellence in Historic Preservation is awarded for outstanding leadership or achievement of regional or statewide impact in historic preservation stewardship of state-owned or administered properties.
The Governor's Awards for Historic Preservation Stewardship are awarded for significant leadership or achievement in historic preservation stewardship of state-owned or administered properties or projects.

The Governor's Award for Excellence in Historic Preservation was given to William K. Chatham (pictured below at right), former vice-chancellor for facilities with the University System of Georgia, Board of Regents for his efforts and leadership in implementing the State Agency Historic Property Stewardship Program. He was a member of the task force to develop preservation treatment guidelines for the rehabilitation of the State's historic buildings.
The first State Stewardship Awards were presented on March 1, 2002 by Lonice C. Barrett (pictured above at left), commissioner of the Department of Natural Resources.

HPD Contact Karen Anderson-Cordova
404/651-6461 karen_anderson-cordova@dnr.
state.ga.us

The Governor's Awards for Historic Preservation Stewardship (pictured above) were presented to:
Richard E. Ehrler, former physical plant director at Georgia Southwestern State University
Michael H. Patterson, director of design and construction at the Georgia Institute of Technology
F. Warren Murphy, senior director of operations for the Jekyll Island Authority Dr. Christopher P.H. Murphy with Augusta State University's Department of
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Preservation Achievement Awards

HPD's director Ray Luce (at left) presented Cecil N. McKithan (right) with a Preservation Achievement Award during SFY2001.
Preservation Achievement Award recipients during SFY2001:
Greta Terrell Covington senior director, Communications and Development, The Georgia Trust, Atlanta
Isaac Johnson treasurer, Georgia African American Historic Preservation Network, Augusta
Cecil N. McKithan National Register Programs division chief, National Park Service, Atlanta
Robin Nail historic preservation planner, Heart of Georgia-Altamaha Regional Development Center, Baxley
Judy Wood archaeologist, Savannah Corps of Engineers, Savannah
Preservation Achievement Award recipients during SFY2002:
Donald Beall treasurer, Georgia African American Historic Preservation Network, Columbus
Louis E. Brown former president, Aderhold Properties, Atlanta Cullen Chambers director, Tybee Island Historical Society, Tybee Island Fort Benning Cultural Resources Management Unit: Colonel Keith Stelzer,
U.S. Army, director of facilities, Engineering and Logistics; John Brent, chief, Environmental Management Division; Larry Jones, historic architect; Christopher Hamilton, cultural resources manager, Fort Benning Georgia Centennial Farms committee: Lora Arledge, director, Georgia Living Center at the Georgia National Fairgrounds; Bernese Cagle, Cherokee County Farm Bureau; Carlton Moore, Department of Agriculture; Donna Reynolds, Georgia Farm Bureau; and Deborah Breedlove, Georgia Forestry Commission Jorene Martin, former historic preservation planner, Georgia Mountains RDC, Gainesville Captain Dan Parrish and the Special Intelligence Unit of DNR-WRD Law Enforcement, Macon
The Fort Benning Cultural Resources Management Unit received a
Preservation Achievement Award during SFY2002.

The Historic Preservation Division (HPD) presents its annual Preservation Achievement Awards during Historic Preservation and Archaeology Awareness Month each May.
The honorees are recognized for their contributions while working in conjunction with HPD and its programs. These individuals or organizations are nominated by division staff members and are recognized as having helped further HPD's mission, vision and goals and thereby made a significant contribution to historic preservation in Georgia.
HPD Contact Helen Talley-McRae
404/651-5268 helen_talley-mcrae@dnr.state.ga.us

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Georgia Centennial Farms

The Georgia Centennial Farm program honors farms that have been continuously operating for more than 100 years with three types of awards.
The Centennial Heritage Farm Award honors farms owned by members of the same family for 100 years or more and are listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
The Centennial Farm Award does not require continual family ownership, but farms must be at least 100 years old and listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
The Centennial Family Farm Award recognizes farms owned by members of the same family for 100 years or more that are not listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
The program is administered by the Historic Preservation Division (HPD) and sponsored by HPD, the Georgia Farm Bureau Federation, the Georgia Department of Agriculture, the Georgia Forestry Commission, the University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences and the Georgia National Fair and Agricenter.
HPD Contact - Gretchen Brock 404/651-6782
gretchen_brock@dnr.state.ga.us

In SFY2001, the Brown-Bryson Farm in Greene County and Wakefield Farm in Hart County received Centennial Farm Awards. Centennial Family Farm Awards were presented to:
Bibb: Minchew Farm Brooks: James and Mary Jean Rizer Farm Burke: The Bell Place Candler: James and Martha Jones Farm Crawford: Dickey Farms, Inc. Dooly: William Jackson Farm; Red Oak Farm Henry: Fieldstone Farm Mitchell: James Edward Eubanks Family Farm Newton: Double K Farm; Pitts-Jones Farm Pike: Anderson Farm Pulaski: The Lancaster Farms Sumter: George H. Laing Farm;
Methvin-Smith Farm Taylor: Anthony Family Farm Worth: Rev. James Fowler Farm
The Georgia Centennial Farms committee received a Preservation Achievement Award from HPD during SFY2002.
In SFY2002, the McKinley King Plantation in Baldwin County, and Carranza Morgan's Farm in Sumter County received Centennial Heritage Farm Awards. Centennial Family Farm Awards were presented to:
Atkinson: William and Angela White Farm Bleckley: Williams Farm Cook: Gin Branch Farm; Martin and Eva Whitehurst Farm Dodge: Audrey Hargrove Cofield Farm Dooly: Charles E. Bowen Farm Emanuel: Homa-Willa Retreat Evans: Wiregrass Plantation Houston: Dave Toomer Estate Jasper: The Wilson Farm Mitchell: Faircloth Siding Farm Oglethorpe: James Albert Paul Farm Rockdale: Rolling Acres Terrell: William T. Gamble Farm; Pritchard Farm Toombs: Mann Estate Turner: Irvin Farm Wheeler: Spring Hill Farm Worth: The Donnan Farm; Gwines Farm; Paulk Farm

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Our Mission
To promote the preservation and use of historic places for a better Georgia.
Our Vision
Georgia will be a better place tomorrow than it is today, providing quality communities in which to live, work, learn and recreate. Historic places will be widely valued as irreplaceable resources that contribute to our heritage, our economy, our neighborhoods, and our sense of who we are as Georgians. Communities and the State will plan for growth and change that respect and include our historic places. Communities will possess the knowledge, the legal and financial tools, and the authority to decide how preservation and new development will relate to one another. There will still be distinctions between city and suburbs, developing areas and countryside. All Georgians will possess a greater understanding and appreciation of our shared heritage in all its variations. People and organizations throughout Georgia will work in partnership to preserve and use historic places. Georgia's communities, economy and environment will be better because of the preservation of historic resources.

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