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In the May 26th issue of Dalton's The Daily Citizen, the following article by Daniel Farow appeared:
MAPPING OF AREA CIVIL WAR SITES TO BEGIN.
Surveyors will soon be documenting Civil War battle sites on Rocky Face Ridge and Mount Rachel thanks to a $10,000 federally funded grant from the state.
"The ultimate purpose is the protection of these historic sites," Kevin McAuliff, a preservation planner with North Georgia Regional Development Center(NGRDC), said.
The grant, which was announced Tuesday by Gov. Sonny Perdue will provide the rest of the funds needed to map breastworks and camp sites, Gaile Jennings with the Dalton-Whitfield Community Development Corporation said.
The total project cost is $26, 580, Jennings said. Whitfield County is providing about $5,000 in cash and $1,500 worth of legal review work as well as a $10,000 grant it received from the state office of qulaity growth, Jennings said.
Staff members from teh NGRDC plan to plot the location of breastworks and other historical sites with GPS technology, as well as photographing and cataloging each site.
McAuliff said he hopes city and county officials can use the documentation gathered under the grant to acquire historic sites that are threatened by development.
"The state Greenspace program is going to come back in one form or another," he said. "This survey will put local officials in a position to knwo what they want to acquire."
McAuliff noted the county acquired more than 650 acres on Rocky Face Ridge north of I-75 in part with Greenspace dollars two years ago.
He hopes this project will encourage future acquisitions.
Jennings said documenting the historic significance of sites may also enable them to be designated as historic locally and eventually place on the National Register of Historic Places.
The project is slated to begin July 1 and be completed by the end of the year.
Areas to be surveyed include the Rocky Face Ridge both north and south of I-75; Mount Rachelm where historians believe there are trenches dug by defending Confederate armies; and Crow Valley, where there are reportedly a 12-gun battery what would be the only one found so far inland if authenticated.
MAPPING OF AREA CIVIL WAR SITES TO BEGIN.
Surveyors will soon be documenting Civil War battle sites on Rocky Face Ridge and Mount Rachel thanks to a $10,000 federally funded grant from the state.
"The ultimate purpose is the protection of these historic sites," Kevin McAuliff, a preservation planner with North Georgia Regional Development Center(NGRDC), said.
The grant, which was announced Tuesday by Gov. Sonny Perdue will provide the rest of the funds needed to map breastworks and camp sites, Gaile Jennings with the Dalton-Whitfield Community Development Corporation said.
The total project cost is $26, 580, Jennings said. Whitfield County is providing about $5,000 in cash and $1,500 worth of legal review work as well as a $10,000 grant it received from the state office of qulaity growth, Jennings said.
Staff members from teh NGRDC plan to plot the location of breastworks and other historical sites with GPS technology, as well as photographing and cataloging each site.
McAuliff said he hopes city and county officials can use the documentation gathered under the grant to acquire historic sites that are threatened by development.
"The state Greenspace program is going to come back in one form or another," he said. "This survey will put local officials in a position to knwo what they want to acquire."
McAuliff noted the county acquired more than 650 acres on Rocky Face Ridge north of I-75 in part with Greenspace dollars two years ago.
He hopes this project will encourage future acquisitions.
Jennings said documenting the historic significance of sites may also enable them to be designated as historic locally and eventually place on the National Register of Historic Places.
The project is slated to begin July 1 and be completed by the end of the year.
Areas to be surveyed include the Rocky Face Ridge both north and south of I-75; Mount Rachelm where historians believe there are trenches dug by defending Confederate armies; and Crow Valley, where there are reportedly a 12-gun battery what would be the only one found so far inland if authenticated.