Historic Preservation Handbook: A Guide for
Volunteers - 1976
This introductory guide to preservation, produced by HPD staff over
thirty years ago, is out of print, but now available as a pdf
here. We hope you find this publication interesting,
but please keep in mind that much of the information is
outdated.
African American resources
African-American Historic Places and Culture: A
Preservation Resource Guide for Georgia - 1993
Agricultural
Tilling the Earth: Georgia's Historic Agricultural
Heritage - October 2001
Archaeological
Archaeological Investigations at Fort Morris State
Historic Site, Liberty County, Georgia - August 2003
Georgia's Inland Waters - August 2003
Findings and Recommendations of the Underwater Archaeology Study Council - December 2002
Building materials
The Conservation and Preservation of Tabby: A
Symposium on Historic Building Material in the Coastal
Southeast - 1998
Cemeteries
Preserving Georgia's Historic Cemeteries -
November 2007
Georgia Governors' Gravesites Field Guide,
1776-2003 - September 2003
Grave Intentions: A Comprehensive Guide to
Preserving Historic Cemeteries in Georgia by Christine Van
Voorhies, the Historic Preservation Division of the Georgia
Department of Natural Resources, September 2003 (available in print
only).
This small, easy-to-read guidebook gives great information on
cleaning up a graveyard and tombstones, getting access to
gravesites, funding your project, handling threats to graves, and
legal issues.
Click here to see the table of contents and ordering
information.
Communities
Georgia Community Development and Morphology of
Community Types - December 1989
Courthouses
Preserving Georgia's Historic Courthouses -
March 2005
Estimate of Cost to Rehabilitate the Historic Courthouses and City Halls of Georgia - September 2002
The Georgia Courthouse Manual - 1992
Post World War II housing
Modern Apartment Complexes in Georgia - May
2003
Atlanta Housing: 1944-1965 - Spring 2001
Railroads
Statewide Railroad Industry Context -
September 1991
The statewide Railroad Industry Context was completed in September
1991 by the Georgia Rails Into Trails Society, in conjunction with
the Georgia Department of Natural Resources Historic Preservation
section and the Trust for Public Land. The purpose of the project
was to identify abandoned railroad rights of way in the state of
Georgia, to describe and catalogue historic structural and
archaeological resources to be found along,the historic railroad
rights of way, and to develop a preservation plan for these
cultural resources.
Schools
Public Elementary and Secondary Schools in Georgia,
1868-1971 - October 2004
Preserving Georgia's Historic Schools - October
2003
State-owned buildings
Held in
Trust: Historic Buildings Owned by the State of Georgia -
1993