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Show Buildings to get Centennial plaques An historic site in Park City will be hondored each week during the 1984 Centennial Cen-tennial Year. A list of 70 possible buildings and sites have already been drawn up, according to Tina Lewis, one of the promoters. Each would receive a plaque detailing its history. Lewis said few residences were on the list. "We felt we should start with the well-known well-known sites and commercial buildings." Possible sites would include St. John's Swedish Church, an old mill site in Deer Valley, the Crescent Tramway, and the old rock wall that is the only vestige of the Marsa( Mill. "We could have added a hundred more," she said. A committee has been assembled to guide the project. One problem is how to honor 70 sites with only 52 weeks in the year. Lewis said the list will either be chopped, or several sites could be honored in a "blitz" toward the end of the year. Nina Macheel, a member of the plaque committee, ; said the group planned to- -honor all the mining sites at once in one ceremony. (Macheel, along with" her colleagues on Historic District Commission has agreed J towprk on the project.) The owners of the sites will be contacted, said Lewis. A plaque will not be forced on them. "The owners think that if we honor a building, they have to keep it up forever," she said. But a written agreement will free them from that obligation. The most unusual plaque proposed would cover the entire en-tire top of a mining car at the MineriBospital. Otherwise, said Lewis, .they would be smaller-V x 10" or 10" by 04", placed on buildings or pedestals. k The plaques will cost $150 to $250 each depending on the size. "We will try to get many donated," she said. The fund set up for the centennial cen-tennial has $10,000 total, Lewis added, but there are over 40 projects vying for money from it. The plaque committee members have several future jobs, she said. These include researching and writing the history for the sites, planning a uniform design for the plaques, deciding in what order sites will be honored, and where the plaques will be placed on historic buildings. |