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. �. THE ALLIANCE REVIEW '- w v. Historic District Buildings in Danger r ' �= Community Preservation Act Signed Hagerstown, Maryland, officials are contemplating three On September 14, the Community Preservation Act, legisla- new projects that, if completed, could result in the loss of at bon designed as a tool for Massachusetts localities to least 17 buildings in its downtown historic district, enhance the preservation of open space , historic resources , and create low- cost housing , was signed by Governor Celucci •A $46 . 5 million National Museum of the Civil War. Eight and Lt. Governor Swift. buildings , including several dating to just after the Civil War, would be demolished. The Act ,allows each locality that voted to accept it to form a Community Preservation Committee to study the needs of the •A $ 12 million office park/parking garage. Three buildings , community and make recommendations to community lead- including a townhouse dating to before 1830 and two late ers regarding the expenditure of money on open space, recre- 19th century loft buildings would be demolished, ational land, historic preservation, and affordable housing. Financing for these Committees would come from a sur- •A $4. 4 million park and parking lot. Six buildings would be charge, up to three percent, on the property tax levy. destroyed for the park and 153 -car lot, which is next to a recently constructed _parking deck operating at below capaci- ty. Looters Set Record xF One bright spot for preservationists is a planned $ 10 .4 millionkt=rw Visual and Performing Arts Center. The most preservation- Looting in Oregon ' s Umpqua National Forest has brought friendly of the proposals , the Center would include a new the state ' s largest criminal penalty ever under the lobby for the historic Maryland Theater and extensive reno- Archaeological Resources Protection Act. Cousins Patrick vations to two adjacent buildings . Wayne Hunt and Patrick Eugene Hunt were each ordered to pay $70, 168 in restitution. Both pled guilty to damage $ ` r caused while digging in the forest since at least 1994. : .. - gg g Governor ' s Task Force Gets Archeologists have estimated the damage - which covers over Statewide Input P two acres - at $ 140 , 000 . Governor, Jim Hodges has pledged to make South Carolina the leading state in preserving historic , structures and sites . The case began in 1994, when Patrick Wayne Hunt appeared To help accomplish that goal , his special task force on his - at the office of BLM archeologist Isaac Bamer with a box of tonic preservation and heritage tourism canvassed the state to what he said were the bones of an ancient three-toed horse, find out what citizens needed to help promote preservation in Hunt was apparently eager to get credit for what he thought their own communities . was a great find, though officials were skeptical. The agency was also skeptical about the bones ' origin. Hunt claimed he More than four hundred people attended forums in eleven found them in a pit (Barner's wife Debra, an archeologist at communities . Participants were asked to consider what Umpqua, says that looters sometimes ask professionals to defining features in their communities and their state were verify an artifact's age) . Led to the site by Hunt, authorities worth preserving for the future. Forum audiences also dis- discovered it was a 6 ,000-year-old Native American camp , cussed the barriers that make historic preservation difficult, and what could be done in the public and private sectors to In 1998 , authorities put the site under surveillance when they remove those barriers . Note-takers at each meeting recorded discovered the damage was even more extensive. Debra the audience' s responses . That information is now being used Bamer and Kelly White, a Forest Service law enforcement by the task force to help it make recommendations to officer, encountered a man at the site carrying a rake and a Governor Hodges for preserving historic places and boosting three-pronged tool. He claimed to be hunting for rocks . The heritage tourism. man was Patrick Eugene Hunt. 14