Page 4 Tennessee Civil War National Heritage Area News Winter 2006

Winter 2006 http://histpres.mtsu.edu/tncivwar Vol. 3, No. 3

TENNESSEE CIVIL WAR

NATIONAL HERITAGE AREA NEWS

� Telling the Whole Story of America�s Greatest Challenge, 1860�1875 �

MTSU, a Tennessee Board of Regents university, is anequal opportunity, non-racially identifiable, educationalinstitution that does not discriminate against individualswith disabilities. AA155-0106

Tennessee Civil War National Heritage AreaCenter for Historic PreservationMiddle Tennessee State UniversityBox 80Murfreesboro, TN 37132

5-31412

The Heritage Area brought the wholestory of the Civil War and Reconstruc-tion to Tennessee teachers and studentsthrough several exciting programs. InChattanooga, we paired with theChattanooga African American HistoryMuseum to produce teacher workbooksand workshops on the UndergroundRailroad in Tennessee. In GreeneCounty, we partnered with public andprivate groups to support the EducationDay that took place in conjunction withthe annual Battle of Blue Springs re-enactment. At the event we distributed aCivil War teacher�s guide, specificallydesigned for Blue Springs, for use withelementary school students.

Our third Legacy of Stones RiverSymposium in Murfreesboro focused onoccupation and the home front andattracted almost 200 attendees includingmany teachers. In a new partnership, theTennessee Council for the Social Studiesheld its fall retreat in conjunction with the

symposium, and weprovided funding andprofessional services forthe workbook that thecouncil provided toteachers. All participantsin the symposiumenjoyed the stimulatingpresentations byStephen Ash of theUniversity ofTennessee, Carol

Crowe-Carraco of Western KentuckyUniversity, Kevin Smith of MiddleTennessee State University, and JimLewis of Stones River NationalBattlefield.

Another Heritage Area�supported eventthat looked at occupation and the homefront was the Tennessee State Museum�sCivil War Institute for teachers. Held inNashville and Murfreesboro, the insti-tute provided teachers with an in-depthworkbook developed with assistancefrom the Heritage Area. Our partnershipwith the state museum follows up on oursupport of its 2004 teacher workshop thatvisited Shiloh, La Grange, Memphis,and Parker�s Crossroads for a closelook at the year 1862 in West Tennessee.Also on the home front theme, theHeritage Area�s new program coordina-tor, Melissa Zimmerman, developed andpresented a satellite videoconference tar-geted to students in grades 4�8.

Teachers and students learned moreabout Heritage Area projects and pro-grams through our display at theTennessee History Festival, held at theBicentennial Mall in Nashville. Also inNashville, the Heritage Area teamedwith local historian Paul Clements to givea workshop to 9th graders at theEnsworth High School, built on the siteof the nineteenth-century Devon Farm.The sessions focused on the remainingcultural resources of the farm and will beprovided to incoming freshmen eachyear.

Our partnership with the Rhodes Institutefor Regional Studies continued throughour development of a new interpretivebooklet on the Battle of Fort Pillow. Thebooklet will soon be available to educa-tors and to members of the general pub-lic who visit Fort Pillow State Park inLauderdale County.

New Regional Partnerships

Strategic Alliances and National Leadership:The Tennessee Civil War National Heritage Area in 2004�2005

Elementary school students visit the HeritageArea�s display at the Tennessee History Festival.

In accordance with our Draft Management Plan, the HeritageArea promotes a statewide conservation ethic by developingcorridor-specific master plans and projects. A key alliance in thisinitiative was formed in the summer of 2005 when the HeritageArea joined the Tennessee Parks and Greenways Foundation,the Memphis Regional Chamber of Commerce, and theTennessee Wildlife Resources Agency in the Mississippi RiverNatural and Recreational Corridor project. This innovativeregional effort will combine inventories of natural, recreational,and historical resources and provide a blueprint for the corri-dor�s development over the years. The Heritage Area is provid-ing matching funds, developing the historical inventory, and par-ticipating in public meetings.

The Heritage Area has also joined the Civil War PreservationTrust and the Heritage Foundation of Franklin and WilliamsonCounty with partnership funds for a study of the local economicimpact of Civil War tourism. Another key Franklin partnership

has been with Franklin�s Charge and the City of Franklin todevelop plans for the acquisition, restoration, and interpreta-tion of the eastern flank of the Franklin battlefield.

The Heritage Area also implemented partnership opportunitieswith other regional projects. In Maryville, the Heritage Areaheld a workshop with community leaders on the heritage areapotential of the U.S. Highway 321 corridor from Maryville toTownsend, at the southwestern entrance to the Great SmokyMountains National Park. The Heritage Area is working withthe Smoky Mountains Convention and Visitors Bureau andother partners to develop a feasibility study.

Getting involved with sustainable regional development effortsis a key step in allowing the Heritage Area to meet its goalsfor economic development, resource conservation, and thecreation of new recreational opportunities. These new partner-ships will be an invaluable foundation for the future success ofthe Heritage Area and will be of great benefit to Tennesseecommunities and property owners.

Heritage professionals (left to right) Angela Calhoun, Deborah Warnick,and Thelma Battle at the demolition of the Pizza Hut building, a keyevent in the proposed restoration of the Franklin battlefield.

Thank you for helping the Tennessee Civil War National HeritageArea reach new heights in 2004�2005. We especially thank all ofour partners who worked with us in hosting the International

Heritage Development Conference, a wonderful event that is stillcreating many opportunities for enhanced heritage developmentthroughout Tennessee.

Getting the Whole Story in the Classroom

Students learn about the cavalry�s role in the Battle of Blue Springs.The Mississippi River near Fort Pillow.

Tennessee�s State Guard, a keyReconstruction-era agency. Our partner-ship with the Heritage Foundation ofFranklin and Williamson County to pub-lish a book of postwar labor contracts from1866 provides a valuable look at emanci-pation and the building of freed AfricanAmerican communities.

Important new exhibit projects received sig-nificant Heritage Area support. The EastTennessee Historical Society in Knoxvilledeveloped Civil War and Reconstructionexhibits for the new Museum of EastTennessee History, a crucial base for theHeritage Area to tell the whole story of theCivil War era in East Tennessee. Othermuseum partners included Carnton

Plantation in Franklin andthe new Smith CountyHeritage Museum inCarthage. The Heritage Areaalso created a photographicexhibit at Stones RiverNational Battlefield aboutRutherford County�sCemetery community, a ruralAfrican American enclavethat developed next to theNational Cemetery in theyears after the Civil War.

At the request of propertyowners and with their assis-tance, Heritage Area staffprepared nominations to theNational Register of HistoricPlaces for Craig Farm, PerryCounty; Cates Farm,Cannon County; BarrsChapel CME Historic District,Henry County; DuvalFarmstead, RobertsonCounty; Moore Farm,Hawkins County; and UnitedCharity Lodge in Bolivar,Hardeman County.

Page 2 Tennessee Civil War National Heritage Area News Winter 2006

The Tennessee Civil War NationalHeritage Area (TCWNHA) is astatewide program dedicated to theinterpretation and preservation ofTennessee�s Civil War andReconstruction resources. Partiallyfunded by the National ParkService, the TCWNHA is one ofseveral projects administered bythe Center for Historic Preservationat Middle Tennessee StateUniversity.

Tennessee Civil WarNational Heritage AreaCenter for Historic PreservationMiddle Tennessee State UniversityBox 80Murfreesboro, TN 37132615-898-2947615-898-5614 faxhttp://histpres.mtsu.edu/tncivwarcivilwar@mtsu.edu

A member of the Alliance ofNational Heritage Areaswww.nationalheritageareas.com

TCWNHA Staff

Carroll Van WestDirector

Laura Stewart HolderManager

Michael Thomas GavinPreservation Specialist

Antoinette G. van ZelmHistorian

Melissa ZimmermanProgram Coordinator

Rachel MartinFellow

Leading Heritage Development in Tennessee and Across America

Winter 2006 Tennessee Civil War National Heritage Area News Page 3

Strong local partnerships resulted in the success ofthe 2005 International Heritage DevelopmentConference (IHDC), held June 4�8 in Nashville.Sponsored by the Alliance of National Heritage Areas,the conference was hosted by the Tennessee CivilWar National Heritage Area and the Center for HistoricPreservation.

Evaluations from attendees listed the conference�shighlight as �Workshop Tuesday,� which allowed allparticipants to attend on-site workshops where theycould interact with Tennessee heritage leaders, resi-dents, and property owners. Held throughout middleTennessee and in Bowling Green, Kentucky, the 14workshops featured such topics as Saving a Sense ofPlace Amidst Intense Growth, Attracting Tourists toCommunities Off the Beaten Path, and BuildingCapacity Where Resources are Few and Far Between.

The efforts of our many partners helped theHeritage Area to demonstrate to a national audi-ence that Tennessee has some of the best, mosteffective partnerships of any heritage area in thenation. The workshops highlighted Tennesseeresources while allowing local residents achance to get perspective and new ideas froman influential national audience.

Also on the national scene, our partnership withthe Alliance of National Heritage Areas to admin-ister the Heritage Development Institute contin-ued in 2004�2005. We conducted institutes inHibbing, Minnesota, at the IHDC in Nashville,and in Portland, Oregon, in conjunction with theNational Trust for Historic Preservation�s annualconference.

TCWNHA Board of Advisors

Beverly BondUniversity of Memphis

Lee Curtis Tennessee Department of TouristDevelopment

Vilma Scruggs FieldsChattanooga African AmericanMuseum

Glenn GallienThe Nature Conservancy

Jack GilpinTennessee State Parks

Herbert HarperTennessee Historical Commission

Brock HillCumberland County Executive

Stuart JohnsonStones River National Battlefield

Alton KelleyMiddle Tennessee Visitors Bureau

Larry LoftonTennessee RC&D Council

Bobby L. LovettTennessee State University

Randy LucasAttorney

Ben NanceTennessee Division of Archaeology

Dan PomeroyTennessee State Museum

Fred ProutyTennessee Historical Commission

T. Clark ShawCasey Jones Village

Michael ToomeyEast Tennessee Historical Society

Ann ToplovichTennessee Historical Society

Richard TuneTennessee Historical Commission

David G. WallaceStewart County Executive

Ex Officio

Bart GordonU.S. Congress

Douglas HenryTennessee Senate

Steve McDanielTennessee House of Representatives

and WilliamsonCounty on a new CivilWar driving tourbrochure; theCumberland ValleyCivil War HeritageAssociation on a simi-lar regional tourismbrochure; the Paris-Henry CountyHeritage Center on adriving tour brochure ofheritage resources;and the BorderlandsFoundation of Byrdstown on an UpperCumberland Civil War driving tourbrochure that builds on an earlier success-ful partnership between the Heritage Areaand the foundation.

A related Heritage Area initiative partnerswith the Center for Historic Preservation todevelop locally based heritage develop-ment plans that have heritage tourismprojects at their core. In the past year,such plans have been developed for theCity of Pulaski and for the FentressCounty Chamber of Commerce. In addi-tion, our efforts to develop an IronFurnace Trail along the western sectionof the Tennessee River gained significantmomentum. Working withthe Buffalo/Duck RiverResource Conservation andDevelopment District, andwith funding from the UnitedStates Forest Service, weheld three successful publicworkshops on the proposedtrail. Keep an eye out for theexciting products and part-nerships that will result.

Several publication projectssupported by the HeritageArea in 2004�2005 areshedding new light onTennessee�s Civil War andReconstruction history. Wejoined with the TennesseeHistorical Society in fundinga special issue of theTennessee HistoricalQuarterly on the proceed-ings of the 140th anniver-sary symposium on theBattle of Nashville. A part-nership with the University ofTennessee Press supportedthe publication of BenSeverance�s book on

Helping Communities and Citizens Preserve the Best of the Past cont.

Gwen Harmon introduces IHDCattendees to the National CivilRights Museum in Memphis.

In the past year, we have focused specificattention on the local demand for AfricanAmerican heritage tourism materials. TheHeritage Area worked with the MiddleTennessee Visitors Bureau to create aninnovative and creative heritage tourismbooklet, the Maury County African-American Heritage Tour Guide. The greatmajority of properties have strong associa-tions with the county�s history of slavery,Civil War, emancipation, and Reconstruc-tion. Heritage Area staff also began a proj-ect with the Marion County AfricanAmerican Heritage Association to create acounty-wide heritage tourism brochure.

Our efforts to promote heritage tourismalso included collaborative partnershipswith the Heritage Foundation of Franklin

This new guide includes numerous Civil War andReconstruction resources.

One IHDC workshop took place at theDiscovery Center at Murfree Spring inMurfreesboro.

Helping Communities and Citizens Preserve the Best of the Past

Barrs Chapel CME Church anchors a newlydesignated historic district in Henry County.

Participants in the Iron Furnace Trail mobile workshops visited BearSpring Furnace, built in 1873, in Stewart County.

Tennessee�s State Guard, a keyReconstruction-era agency. Our partner-ship with the Heritage Foundation ofFranklin and Williamson County to pub-lish a book of postwar labor contracts from1866 provides a valuable look at emanci-pation and the building of freed AfricanAmerican communities.

Important new exhibit projects received sig-nificant Heritage Area support. The EastTennessee Historical Society in Knoxvilledeveloped Civil War and Reconstructionexhibits for the new Museum of EastTennessee History, a crucial base for theHeritage Area to tell the whole story of theCivil War era in East Tennessee. Othermuseum partners included Carnton

Plantation in Franklin andthe new Smith CountyHeritage Museum inCarthage. The Heritage Areaalso created a photographicexhibit at Stones RiverNational Battlefield aboutRutherford County�sCemetery community, a ruralAfrican American enclavethat developed next to theNational Cemetery in theyears after the Civil War.

At the request of propertyowners and with their assis-tance, Heritage Area staffprepared nominations to theNational Register of HistoricPlaces for Craig Farm, PerryCounty; Cates Farm,Cannon County; BarrsChapel CME Historic District,Henry County; DuvalFarmstead, RobertsonCounty; Moore Farm,Hawkins County; and UnitedCharity Lodge in Bolivar,Hardeman County.

Page 2 Tennessee Civil War National Heritage Area News Winter 2006

The Tennessee Civil War NationalHeritage Area (TCWNHA) is astatewide program dedicated to theinterpretation and preservation ofTennessee�s Civil War andReconstruction resources. Partiallyfunded by the National ParkService, the TCWNHA is one ofseveral projects administered bythe Center for Historic Preservationat Middle Tennessee StateUniversity.

Tennessee Civil WarNational Heritage AreaCenter for Historic PreservationMiddle Tennessee State UniversityBox 80Murfreesboro, TN 37132615-898-2947615-898-5614 faxhttp://histpres.mtsu.edu/tncivwarcivilwar@mtsu.edu

A member of the Alliance ofNational Heritage Areaswww.nationalheritageareas.com

TCWNHA Staff

Carroll Van WestDirector

Laura Stewart HolderManager

Michael Thomas GavinPreservation Specialist

Antoinette G. van ZelmHistorian

Melissa ZimmermanProgram Coordinator

Rachel MartinFellow

Leading Heritage Development in Tennessee and Across America

Winter 2006 Tennessee Civil War National Heritage Area News Page 3

Strong local partnerships resulted in the success ofthe 2005 International Heritage DevelopmentConference (IHDC), held June 4�8 in Nashville.Sponsored by the Alliance of National Heritage Areas,the conference was hosted by the Tennessee CivilWar National Heritage Area and the Center for HistoricPreservation.

Evaluations from attendees listed the conference�shighlight as �Workshop Tuesday,� which allowed allparticipants to attend on-site workshops where theycould interact with Tennessee heritage leaders, resi-dents, and property owners. Held throughout middleTennessee and in Bowling Green, Kentucky, the 14workshops featured such topics as Saving a Sense ofPlace Amidst Intense Growth, Attracting Tourists toCommunities Off the Beaten Path, and BuildingCapacity Where Resources are Few and Far Between.

The efforts of our many partners helped theHeritage Area to demonstrate to a national audi-ence that Tennessee has some of the best, mosteffective partnerships of any heritage area in thenation. The workshops highlighted Tennesseeresources while allowing local residents achance to get perspective and new ideas froman influential national audience.

Also on the national scene, our partnership withthe Alliance of National Heritage Areas to admin-ister the Heritage Development Institute contin-ued in 2004�2005. We conducted institutes inHibbing, Minnesota, at the IHDC in Nashville,and in Portland, Oregon, in conjunction with theNational Trust for Historic Preservation�s annualconference.

TCWNHA Board of Advisors

Beverly BondUniversity of Memphis

Lee Curtis Tennessee Department of TouristDevelopment

Vilma Scruggs FieldsChattanooga African AmericanMuseum

Glenn GallienThe Nature Conservancy

Jack GilpinTennessee State Parks

Herbert HarperTennessee Historical Commission

Brock HillCumberland County Executive

Stuart JohnsonStones River National Battlefield

Alton KelleyMiddle Tennessee Visitors Bureau

Larry LoftonTennessee RC&D Council

Bobby L. LovettTennessee State University

Randy LucasAttorney

Ben NanceTennessee Division of Archaeology

Dan PomeroyTennessee State Museum

Fred ProutyTennessee Historical Commission

T. Clark ShawCasey Jones Village

Michael ToomeyEast Tennessee Historical Society

Ann ToplovichTennessee Historical Society

Richard TuneTennessee Historical Commission

David G. WallaceStewart County Executive

Ex Officio

Bart GordonU.S. Congress

Douglas HenryTennessee Senate

Steve McDanielTennessee House of Representatives

and WilliamsonCounty on a new CivilWar driving tourbrochure; theCumberland ValleyCivil War HeritageAssociation on a simi-lar regional tourismbrochure; the Paris-Henry CountyHeritage Center on adriving tour brochure ofheritage resources;and the BorderlandsFoundation of Byrdstown on an UpperCumberland Civil War driving tourbrochure that builds on an earlier success-ful partnership between the Heritage Areaand the foundation.

A related Heritage Area initiative partnerswith the Center for Historic Preservation todevelop locally based heritage develop-ment plans that have heritage tourismprojects at their core. In the past year,such plans have been developed for theCity of Pulaski and for the FentressCounty Chamber of Commerce. In addi-tion, our efforts to develop an IronFurnace Trail along the western sectionof the Tennessee River gained significantmomentum. Working withthe Buffalo/Duck RiverResource Conservation andDevelopment District, andwith funding from the UnitedStates Forest Service, weheld three successful publicworkshops on the proposedtrail. Keep an eye out for theexciting products and part-nerships that will result.

Several publication projectssupported by the HeritageArea in 2004�2005 areshedding new light onTennessee�s Civil War andReconstruction history. Wejoined with the TennesseeHistorical Society in fundinga special issue of theTennessee HistoricalQuarterly on the proceed-ings of the 140th anniver-sary symposium on theBattle of Nashville. A part-nership with the University ofTennessee Press supportedthe publication of BenSeverance�s book on

Helping Communities and Citizens Preserve the Best of the Past cont.

Gwen Harmon introduces IHDCattendees to the National CivilRights Museum in Memphis.

In the past year, we have focused specificattention on the local demand for AfricanAmerican heritage tourism materials. TheHeritage Area worked with the MiddleTennessee Visitors Bureau to create aninnovative and creative heritage tourismbooklet, the Maury County African-American Heritage Tour Guide. The greatmajority of properties have strong associa-tions with the county�s history of slavery,Civil War, emancipation, and Reconstruc-tion. Heritage Area staff also began a proj-ect with the Marion County AfricanAmerican Heritage Association to create acounty-wide heritage tourism brochure.

Our efforts to promote heritage tourismalso included collaborative partnershipswith the Heritage Foundation of Franklin

This new guide includes numerous Civil War andReconstruction resources.

One IHDC workshop took place at theDiscovery Center at Murfree Spring inMurfreesboro.

Helping Communities and Citizens Preserve the Best of the Past

Barrs Chapel CME Church anchors a newlydesignated historic district in Henry County.

Participants in the Iron Furnace Trail mobile workshops visited BearSpring Furnace, built in 1873, in Stewart County.

Page 4 Tennessee Civil War National Heritage Area News Winter 2006

Winter 2006 http://histpres.mtsu.edu/tncivwar Vol. 3, No. 3

TENNESSEE CIVIL WAR

NATIONAL HERITAGE AREA NEWS

� Telling the Whole Story of America�s Greatest Challenge, 1860�1875 �

MTSU, a Tennessee Board of Regents university, is anequal opportunity, non-racially identifiable, educationalinstitution that does not discriminate against individualswith disabilities. AA155-0106

Tennessee Civil War National Heritage AreaCenter for Historic PreservationMiddle Tennessee State UniversityBox 80Murfreesboro, TN 37132

5-31412

The Heritage Area brought the wholestory of the Civil War and Reconstruc-tion to Tennessee teachers and studentsthrough several exciting programs. InChattanooga, we paired with theChattanooga African American HistoryMuseum to produce teacher workbooksand workshops on the UndergroundRailroad in Tennessee. In GreeneCounty, we partnered with public andprivate groups to support the EducationDay that took place in conjunction withthe annual Battle of Blue Springs re-enactment. At the event we distributed aCivil War teacher�s guide, specificallydesigned for Blue Springs, for use withelementary school students.

Our third Legacy of Stones RiverSymposium in Murfreesboro focused onoccupation and the home front andattracted almost 200 attendees includingmany teachers. In a new partnership, theTennessee Council for the Social Studiesheld its fall retreat in conjunction with the

symposium, and weprovided funding andprofessional services forthe workbook that thecouncil provided toteachers. All participantsin the symposiumenjoyed the stimulatingpresentations byStephen Ash of theUniversity ofTennessee, Carol

Crowe-Carraco of Western KentuckyUniversity, Kevin Smith of MiddleTennessee State University, and JimLewis of Stones River NationalBattlefield.

Another Heritage Area�supported eventthat looked at occupation and the homefront was the Tennessee State Museum�sCivil War Institute for teachers. Held inNashville and Murfreesboro, the insti-tute provided teachers with an in-depthworkbook developed with assistancefrom the Heritage Area. Our partnershipwith the state museum follows up on oursupport of its 2004 teacher workshop thatvisited Shiloh, La Grange, Memphis,and Parker�s Crossroads for a closelook at the year 1862 in West Tennessee.Also on the home front theme, theHeritage Area�s new program coordina-tor, Melissa Zimmerman, developed andpresented a satellite videoconference tar-geted to students in grades 4�8.

Teachers and students learned moreabout Heritage Area projects and pro-grams through our display at theTennessee History Festival, held at theBicentennial Mall in Nashville. Also inNashville, the Heritage Area teamedwith local historian Paul Clements to givea workshop to 9th graders at theEnsworth High School, built on the siteof the nineteenth-century Devon Farm.The sessions focused on the remainingcultural resources of the farm and will beprovided to incoming freshmen eachyear.

Our partnership with the Rhodes Institutefor Regional Studies continued throughour development of a new interpretivebooklet on the Battle of Fort Pillow. Thebooklet will soon be available to educa-tors and to members of the general pub-lic who visit Fort Pillow State Park inLauderdale County.

New Regional Partnerships

Strategic Alliances and National Leadership:The Tennessee Civil War National Heritage Area in 2004�2005

Elementary school students visit the HeritageArea�s display at the Tennessee History Festival.

In accordance with our Draft Management Plan, the HeritageArea promotes a statewide conservation ethic by developingcorridor-specific master plans and projects. A key alliance in thisinitiative was formed in the summer of 2005 when the HeritageArea joined the Tennessee Parks and Greenways Foundation,the Memphis Regional Chamber of Commerce, and theTennessee Wildlife Resources Agency in the Mississippi RiverNatural and Recreational Corridor project. This innovativeregional effort will combine inventories of natural, recreational,and historical resources and provide a blueprint for the corri-dor�s development over the years. The Heritage Area is provid-ing matching funds, developing the historical inventory, and par-ticipating in public meetings.

The Heritage Area has also joined the Civil War PreservationTrust and the Heritage Foundation of Franklin and WilliamsonCounty with partnership funds for a study of the local economicimpact of Civil War tourism. Another key Franklin partnership

has been with Franklin�s Charge and the City of Franklin todevelop plans for the acquisition, restoration, and interpreta-tion of the eastern flank of the Franklin battlefield.

The Heritage Area also implemented partnership opportunitieswith other regional projects. In Maryville, the Heritage Areaheld a workshop with community leaders on the heritage areapotential of the U.S. Highway 321 corridor from Maryville toTownsend, at the southwestern entrance to the Great SmokyMountains National Park. The Heritage Area is working withthe Smoky Mountains Convention and Visitors Bureau andother partners to develop a feasibility study.

Getting involved with sustainable regional development effortsis a key step in allowing the Heritage Area to meet its goalsfor economic development, resource conservation, and thecreation of new recreational opportunities. These new partner-ships will be an invaluable foundation for the future success ofthe Heritage Area and will be of great benefit to Tennesseecommunities and property owners.

Heritage professionals (left to right) Angela Calhoun, Deborah Warnick,and Thelma Battle at the demolition of the Pizza Hut building, a keyevent in the proposed restoration of the Franklin battlefield.

Thank you for helping the Tennessee Civil War National HeritageArea reach new heights in 2004�2005. We especially thank all ofour partners who worked with us in hosting the International

Heritage Development Conference, a wonderful event that is stillcreating many opportunities for enhanced heritage developmentthroughout Tennessee.

Getting the Whole Story in the Classroom

Students learn about the cavalry�s role in the Battle of Blue Springs.The Mississippi River near Fort Pillow.