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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, • where Dr. West and his graduate assistants worked with the local Chamber of Commerce to nominate the Union City railroad depot to (615) 898-2947
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Transcript | 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, • where Dr. West and his graduate assistants worked with the local Chamber of Commerce to nominate the Union City railroad depot to (615) 898-2947 |