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As a friend of the National Trust, I know you care deeply about saving the places
where great moments from our history took place.
But I’m guessing you care just
as deeply, if not more, about the places where important moments of our everyday
lives have taken place. The place where your grandparents were married and the hotel
where they spent their honeymoon. The train depot where community members shipped
out for their tours in the armed services and the rows of bungalows that define
a neighborhood’s character. The drive-in movie theater you frequented as a child
or a community landmark that serves up local history to elementary school students.
Too often, these places can be lost in a heartbeat -- sometimes even before we realize
they will be missed. That’s why we launched our This Place Matters campaign, to
help people call attention to special places in their community before they are
endangered. Because we all know the best way to save a place is to make sure it
is valued in the community.
So celebrate a place you love, sound an alarm about
a place that is threatened, or just start a conversation about a place that matters.
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Visit This Place Matters - on the National Trust
for Historic Preservation Website |
National Trust for Historic Preservation
This Place Matters Map |
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This Place Matters is a campaign of the
National Trust for Historic Preservation,
sponsored by Fireman’s Fund Insurance Company, and is an online program to showcase
the diverse places that matter to all of us. People from across the country are
honoring their favorite places and making a call to protect, enhance and enjoy the
places that matter to all of us.
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The Places That Matter in Downtown
Goldsboro |
These photos are images of our posters that we created to celebrate National Historic
Preservation month in conjunction with the National Trust for Historic Preservation
2009 theme – This Place Matters. We identified 32 historic structures in and around
our downtown and solicited people from within the community to participate.
We will have all the posters (approximately 500) distributed and displayed throughout
our community demonstrating the importance of our historic places. Downtown Goldsboro
has received several awards and accolades for our recent preservation efforts and
your support of this movement will further confirm our belief of its value, particularly
to our downtown revitalization efforts as a Main Street community. Preservation
was not always valued in Goldsboro but due to many people’s collective efforts in
the past few years, our community leadership has embraced practices to support these
types of initiatives.
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