The Compilers

Those of us in historic preservation often overlook the fact that we are making as well as preserving history.

Focusing on helping others preserve “their” history, we tend to overlook our “historic” activities and accomplishments. “Preserving the Past of Georgia’s State Historic Preservation Office” is intended to document the “historic” accomplishments of Georgia’s state historic preservation office.

At the outset, this project includes a timeline of office activities, organizational charts, staff lists, staff photographs, office locations, retrospective articles, and other miscellaneous information. It focuses on the events, activities, and accomplishments associated with Georgia’s state historic preservation office from its inception in 1969 to its most recent administrative and programmatic reorganization in 2010. It also identifies the nearly 300 individuals who worked in the office during this time and helped make all this happen. As time goes on, additional information augmenting and updating this material will be added.

We hope you’ll appreciate how this compilation of information reflects the history of Georgia’s state historic preservation office and highlights the many activities, events, and accomplishments in Georgia made possible in large measure by the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966. And we hope you will submit your comments and additional information about the state historic preservation office’s “historic” activities, events, and accomplishments so that this retrospective record will be as complete as possible.