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In 2018, the Georgetown & Scott County Museum accepted a perpetual preservation easement protecting the historic Choctaw Academy dormitory and helping ensure that this nationally significant place would be preserved for future generations. The Museum has now asked to be released from that responsibility. This comes at a critical moment: substantial private funding has been pledged toward restoration, contractors are preparing updated plans and estimates, and the National Park Service has invited the Choctaw Academy to pursue National Historic Landmark designation. After years of work to build the partnerships and resources necessary to save the building, losing the Museum as the preservation-easement holder could create another significant obstacle just as restoration is becoming achievable.
You can help. We are asking members of the community to respectfully contact the Georgetown & Scott County Museum and its Board of Directors and encourage them to remain the preservation-easement holder and an active partner in saving the Choctaw Academy. Ask the Board to work with the community, donors, Tribal Nations, preservation organizations, and other partners to move restoration forward rather than withdraw from its existing preservation commitment. This is an opportunity for our community’s museum to help preserve not merely an artifact, but the historic place itself. Please make your voice heard—respectfully, constructively, and with one simple message: stay involved and help us save the Choctaw Academy.
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The Choctaw Academy site in Scott County is now under consideration for National Historic Landmark designation by the National Park Service — a rare recognition reserved for places of exceptional importance to American history. Yet despite this extraordinary opportunity, current roadway plans threaten the site’s historic landscape, stone walls, and viewshed in favor of a design driven largely by access to “free” federal funding. . Major projects affecting historic resources do not move forward without local advocacy and support. Our community leaders should be championing preservation. Scott County has an opportunity to protect both public safety and one of Kentucky’s most important historic landscapes — but only if citizens demand it.
Urgency
More than ever, we need to preserve the viewshed and landscape of the Academy. Once it's gone, it's gone forever.
Contributions
Charitible contributions can be made to Bluegrass Community Foundation in the name of the Save the Choctaw Academy Project! www.bgcf.org (fundraising temporarily suspended because of Museum activities)
Go to https://www.facebook.com/p/Save-the-Choctaw-Academy-100064720144362/
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