McKenzie Depot: press release announcing public meeting

              The Center for Historic Preservation
Box 80 • Middle Tennessee State University • Murfreesboro, Tennessee 37132
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
HISTORIC PRESERVATION PUBLIC MEETING, MCKENZIE, JUNE 19, 1995
On June 19, Monday night, at 7 pm, at the -----------------' will
be a meeting of residents in McKenzie and Carroll County who are
interested in what the future of the past may be for this area.
The invited speaker will be Dr. Carroll Van West of the MTSU
Center for Historic Preservation. He will discuss the value of
historic preservation to Tennessee towns and discuss how his
university department can assist present and future history and
historic preservation efforts in Carroll County.
"The past most certainly has a future in McKenzie," observes Dr.
West. "As an important railroad junction town in the nineteenth
century, McKenzie developed a distinctive small town environment
that is still apparent today in the surviving town square,
Cumberland Presbyterian church, the railroad passenger depot,
Bethel College, and the old post office, which is now the Gordon
Browning Museum."
Over the last five years, the Center for Historic Preservation
has completed very successful historic preservation projects in
Dyersburg, Covington, Trenton, and most recently in Union City,
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where Dr. West and his graduate assistants worked with the local
Chamber of Commerce to nominate the Union City railroad depot to
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