Do a little research on your community's Web sites to find out what kind of conservation or preservation measures have been accomplished and the effect they have had on the community. When you have completed this task, write a 400-word paper that outlines what has been done and what is to be done in the future.

In simple terms, historic preservation means safeguarding the existence and appearance of historic elements of the community.

TYPES OF HISTORIC ELEMENTS

Structures

Houses, commercial and industrial buildings, barns, bridges, monuments – any man-made structure that has some historical value or significance.

Historical value resides in the historical element itself. It may be valuable as an example of a style of architecture or an industrial process that’s no longer used, or simply for its age. Many houses that were unremarkable when they were built, for instance, have gained historical value because they’ve lasted, and are among the few left from their time. A log house in Randolph County, AR, built in the 1820s, is important historically because it’s believed to be the oldest house in the state – one of the few that has survived intact from the early days of white settlement.

Historical significance usually has to do with a link between the element and a particular historical event or series of events. Many historically significant buildings, like the Obecni Dum, are architecturally important as well, but they don’t have to be. The 18th Century stone farmhouse at Valley Forge, PA that was George Washington’s headquarters through part of the American Revolutionary War is no different from hundreds of other surviving houses of the period in that area, but is important specifically because it was Washington’s headquarters.

swe hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. — that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. "

- declaration of independence

  according to this passage from the declaration of independence, who gives government the power to exist?

a) the king

b) the people

c) their creator

d) their governmenthook

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