{"id":103,"date":"2013-02-17T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-17T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/why-cant-we-keep-and-restore-something-that-is-very-important-to-a-community-of-people-april-huntley.html"},"modified":"2013-02-17T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-17T16:00:00","slug":"why-cant-we-keep-and-restore-something-that-is-very-important-to-a-community-of-people-april-huntley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/why-cant-we-keep-and-restore-something-that-is-very-important-to-a-community-of-people-april-huntley.html","title":{"rendered":"Why cant we keep and restore something that is very important to a community of people? —April Huntley"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nReceived Friday. April Huntley also sent it to the Lowndes County Commissioners.\nI have added a few links and pictures. -jsq\n<\/p>\n

\n

\nDear Editor,\n<\/p>\n

\n\n<\/a>\nI’m not sure if people know or care that there is\n\nanother Dollar\nGeneral about to pop-up<\/a> in Lowndes County. This time it will be in\nNaylor. I’m not sure if this will be an improvement or not.\n<\/p>\n

\nSomething I am also aware of and hold an opinion about is the\n\nproposal to abandon a road in Naylor that leads to the Alapaha\nRiver<\/a>. This is\n\nthe only public access to the Alapaha in Lowndes\nCounty<\/a>. It is a place of history, recreation and fun for many\npeople.\n<\/p>\n

\nThe spot where County Road 16, Old State Rd., dead ends at the\nAlapaha River is an area of rich history for Naylor and\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n

\nLowndes\n\n<\/a>\nCounty. There was once a bridge there that crossed the river to\nLanier County and it was called Hotchkiss Bridge Crossing. I’ve been\ntold it was the only way to get to Waycross before 84 came in. I was\ngiven maps from the local museum that indicate the bridge was there\nin 1908 and still there in 1939. I’ve heard it burned down in the\n60’s. I heard from one person a boat ramp was built in the early\n80’s by the state of Georgia with prison labor. Two older Naylor\nlocals confirmed this claim by telling me there was a functioning\nboat ramp at that location 15-20 years ago. I’ve also heard from\nmultiple people there were picnic tables and trash cans at one time.\nFor some reason Lowndes County doesn’t have records that the boat\nramp was ever built. They also don’t know when the bridge was built\nor when it ceased to be, per the records request I made. I was told\nby the County Clerk, the records weren’t kept very well back then.\n<\/p>\n

\nDespite the issue of whether there was a boat ramp or not, the area\nhas over 100 years of history with Lowndes County for public access\nsince the bridge was there in 1908. I’ve been told by an older man\nwho lives near me that people in Naylor went down to the bridge on\nthe weekends to swim and have picnics when he was a kid in the 30’s.\nHe said the community celebrated the 4th of July there together. It\nwas the only recreation they had. It still is for many.\n<\/p>\n

\nI personally like to go to trails around the county, surrounding\n\n<\/a>\ncounties and north Georgia. I especially like the spot on the\nAlapaha because it is near my house. It is easy to go to in less\nthan 5 minutes and I can go after work or any time, really. I love\nthe sound of the flowing water, singing birds and beautiful trees.\nMy husband enjoys going down there to to talk and hang out with his\nbuddies around a fire. I have went down there with him while he\nfished and I read a book, enjoying the fresh air. It is a place to\nrelax and unwind for us.\n<\/p>\n

\nWhile I am sure there has been rowdiness down there, maybe it could\n\n<\/a>\nuse some rules and boundaries. What if it were a park that preserved\nthe historic area for future generations? In my opinion a resolution\ncan be made to benefit all those involved: the landowners, the\ncounty and the community. I mean why is it just fine and dandy to\nput a new store in our neck of the woods, but we can’t keep and\nrestore something that is very important to a community of people?\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Received Friday. April Huntley also sent it to the Lowndes County Commissioners. I have added a few links and pictures. -jsq Dear Editor, I’m not sure if people know or care that there is another Dollar General about to pop-up in Lowndes County. This time it will be in Naylor. I’m not sure if this […]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[97,40,16,70,8,2,20,88,469,21,22,3,449,55],"tags":[8736,453,8717,592,8706,8728,8701,8699,8702,8710,12,7,8734,8770,8711,8712,593,8700,8767,6,8727],"class_list":["post-103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-community","category-environment","category-ethics","category-georgia","category-government","category-law","category-lowndes-county-commission","category-naylor","category-planning","category-politics","category-transparency","category-transportation","category-water","tag-activism","tag-alapaha-river","tag-community","tag-dollar-general","tag-environment","tag-ethics","tag-georgia","tag-government","tag-lake","tag-law","tag-lowndes-area-knowledge-exchange","tag-lowndes-county","tag-lowndes-county-commission","tag-naylor","tag-planning","tag-politics","tag-road-abandonment","tag-transparency","tag-transportation","tag-valdosta","tag-water"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-1F","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}