----- Forwarded Message ----- From: Ann Brownlee <girlywhig@webkorner.com> To: ROWANROOTS-L@rootsweb.com Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2002 23:20:24 -0800 Subject: [RowanRoots] Help Save our Historic Sites! To all interested "Old Rowan" County, North Carolina: The NC Department of Transportation is *still* planning on destroying many of our historic sites in the Trading Ford/Fort York area of the Yadkin River. The planned widening of Interstate 85 will destroy historic resources important to our Native-American, early settlement, Revolutionary War, and Civil War heritage. Many of you sent an email in response to Dan Patterson's request asking NCDOT for a public meeting. NCDOT promised this meeting in April, and nothing further has been done. There are alternatives which would save all these historic sites. Even though federal laws mandate it, NCDOT has refused to consider any alternatives. Please go to this page: http://home.webkorner.com/whigkid/tradingford/save.html Under "What you can do", please click on the first link to send an email to NCDOT and the NC State Historic Preservation Office asking that they save or minimize the highway construction's impact on our historic sites. Please be sure to add your name and mailing address to the end of the message. This highway project is federally funded, so all of us, all over the country, have a stake in what our government does. Please make your voice heard! Pass this on to your address books and other online lists. Thank you for your continued interest and support. Ann Brownlee whigkid@webkorner.com