Happy Wednesday!!!!!!!!!!! We attended a motivational event tonight at ParkView, our new downtown distinctive living community...........The NC New Civil War History Center provided wine, cheese, etc. in a lavish tent and Loft at ParkView. Parkview was the host and food was provided. We were updated on the upcoming new civil war history center to be located in haymount at Arsenal Park in downtown near ParkView. This is a 65 million dollar planned new center to showcase the civil war. The State has endorsed downtown Fayettevvile at the arsenal location to have this new center built. Tourism for this new center from Interstate 95, etc., will bring more jobs, tax revenues, & foot traffic to downtown. Chick Jacobs provided the following info: Nearly 150 years after Gen. William T. Sherman ordered the Fayetteville Arsenal destroyed, a new $65 million history center is planned to take its place. The Cumberland Community Foundation provided a half-million-dollar grant to kick off the North Carolina Civil War History Center. Center officials say if all goes as planned, the center - to be built adjacent to the footprint of the historic Fayetteville Arsenal - could be opened by the end of 2018. Dr. Lucile West Hutaff is the founder of the Cumberland County Foundation. The Cumberland County Foundation - board members made a point of not calling the proposed two-story, 60,000-square-foot building a museum - will be the first of its kind in the nation, said board member Mary Lynn Bryan. It will be something new, something that no one else has done, maybe even thought about, Bryan said. It will offer a study of what happened to all the people of North Carolina before, during and after that time. It wont just be about battles and soldiers. It will be about families, children and the elderly, black white, Native Americans. They were all part of the Civil War in North Carolina, and they all have their story to tell. The grant from the Cumberland Community Foundation is the largest in the organizations history. It will help jump-start ongoing preparations once the center has received state approval. The board, which has been building support for the center since 2011, doesnt anticipate any problems and hopes to begin construction by late 2017.
Posted on: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 01:02:59 +0000