PRESERVATION KENTUCKY PUBLICATIONS
Preservation Kentucky sponsors or co-sponsors many educational publications to assist Kentuckians with preserving important historic places. Among recent publications of interest is The Economics of Historic Preservation in Kentucky, in partnership with the University of Louisville. This study details the economic and social impact of preservation activities in the state. For example, the report investigates the benefits of local preservation district designation to higher, more stable property values as well as the great advances in preservation economics due to the state historic preservation tax credit, which was enacted in 2005.
Other educational studies have been done in partnership with the Kentucky Heritage Council. The results of a year-and-a-half long study of rural historic resources in Marion and Washington Counties demonstrates the importance of places such as barns, outbuildings, and crossroad towns, to a sense of place in rural Kentucky.
Other publications of interest include:
Archaeological Publications of interest can be found at the Kentucky Archaeological Survey website: http://www.heritage.ky.gov/kas/pubsvids/puborient.htm. These educational booklets include studies of Kentucky before Euro/African American settlement, such as Kentuckians Before Boone and Adena: Woodland Period Moundbuilders of the Bluegrass. Historic Archaeology is represented by a study of the kitchen site at Riverside in Jefferson County and a new video entitled, Historic Archaeology: Beneath Kentucky's Fields and Streets.
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