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efforts under the County’s comprehensive plan; it could be used to create reference materials, slide presentations, arid tourist guides to Rappahannock historical sites; and it is a first step in the process of placing historic properties and historic districts in the Virginia and National Register of Historic Places.
Entry of a property into the register qualifies a property owner for tax credits for preservation efforts, would enable an owner or manager of a property to engage in another State program that provides matching grants for rehabilitation of cultural attractions, and provides an opportunity for an owner to receive credit for the contribution of a preservation easement on the property.
Published Department of Historic Resources estimates show that it would cost from $24,000 to $28,000 to survey 200 buildings and to prepare a comprehensive illustrated report, a scripted slide presentation, maps identifying all properties more than fifty years old, and creation of an electronic database of the historic properties. Though no estimate has been provided of the number of historic buildings in the County, the DHR estimate of approximately $20,000 for the Rappahannock County program takes into account the data collected by Mr. Edwards in the ‘80’s, and should prove relatively , accurate.
Though DHR’s Cost Sharing Program calls for a fifty percent contribution by the State and by the locality, no State funds are available for this fiscal year but private Rappahannock County contributions for an historic survey might provide the necessary impetus for the State to initiate a Rappahannock program even before State funds are obligated.
Jeff Light of Woodville, who is coordinating citizen efforts to get the program underway, reported to the Board of Supervisors that there is “solid support from the community” and he said that he believes that sufficient funds have been pledged “to pursue cost-sharing with the State. ...” To date, Mr. McCarthy later reported, just
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