As a former student at the Atlanta School of Art and Design, I am forever indebted to the teachers, faculty, and staff, past and present, who have taught me in my career. These teachers, as well as my fellow students, have shaped my perspective and knowledge of the historical and cultural impact that my work has on the world today.
Of course, we can all agree that Georgia has been home to a lot of famous artists, from John Ruskin to Alexander Calder to Richard Neutra, but there are lots of things we know about the state that we don’t know about, and I’m always eager to learn more. This week, a group of us set out to find what we don’t know about the state’s history: Georgian villages.
We started by going through the National Register of Historic Places, and in particular the ones in Savannah. We also went through the state government websites, looking at the way the state government was funded. We looked at the records for the state offices, looking at the way government agencies were run, and we looked at the state governments websites.
The story I found most amazing was about the Savannah Historic District, which had the largest number of homes in the state, a lot of them built in the 18th or 19th centuries. The state owned that land, and it was divided up into lots, and these lots were set aside for a specific purpose. The Georgia legislature had decided that this was a good use of the land, and the entire district was named after this.
The problem was that the property was owned by a private business, a company called the Savannah Improvement Company, so the government wanted to change the name of the district to Historic Savannah. This was to honor the local heritage and history, and the government had to change the name of the district to Historic Savannah. This got the other developers that owned lots in the historic district to stop building, which led to more lots being torn down.
I wish the government people would have been more open to the idea of keeping the historic district a protected area. Instead they just wanted to tear down the lots as fast as possible.
I understand that historically the historic district was quite a large area, and I also understand that the government wants to preserve the district as a historic area. But the people who own the historic district seem to have forgotten that history and have been more interested in tearing down historic buildings than preserving them. It’s a shame.
As you can tell from the above, I love this story trailer. We all know that keeping the historic district a protected area is a good idea, but the people who own the district apparently don’t want anyone else to know that they own it. Well, that’s one way to keep the historic district as a protected area. We could also do away with the Historic District by selling it to someone who can manage it without tearing it down.
Although a historical district is actually a good idea, in this case there is a lot of money to be made selling it to someone who can manage it without tearing it down.
So why does the Historic District exist? It’s not because it’s a protected area. It is because the people who own the district want to keep on living in it. They don’t want anyone else to know that they own it.
