UGA receives grant to identify historic property

The college of environment and design at the
University of Georgia has received a $750,000 grant to identify properties in the state with historic value, university officials said Monday.

FindIt, the Georgia Historic Resources Survey Partnership, will send UGA graduate students to conduct the historic inventory. The information gathered in the five-year project will be entered into a database at the state historic preservation office. {{more}}

The program, funded by the Georgia Transmission Corp., will help the corporation in its work building and upgrading electrical transmission lines and substations by preventing unknown historic properties from being damaged or demolished.

University officials eventually would like to make the database available to the public. It could aid those planning land-use projects, roads or subdivisions.

Other partners for the FindIt project include the state Department of Natural Resources Historical Preservation Division, the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation and the Rural Utilities Service.