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  • You lose buildings one at a time.

  • Nobody's going to come in with a bulldozer and take down the whole town

  • But they think nothing about taking down one building.

  • You know history is prologue.

  • If you don't preserve the past,

  • you don't keep this identity,

  • then you have no identity.

  • You know I realize that old things don't last forever

  • Unless people like preservationists are out there carrying a sign and beating the drums.

  • I've been guilty of that.

  • This is where it all began - on the corner of Bridge Street and Fifth Avenue

  • 1963 Mr. Wilbur Corn died and his daughter came from New York to have the funeral

  • She did not want anyone living in her daddy's house

  • So she sold the house and left.

  • Now she sold it to an oil company who replaced it with a filling station

  • That filling station didn't last very long. They tore it down and built this lovely commercial strip

  • Where you could see the house sit right here.

  • There's the sidewalk right there. It's sitting right, right on the sidewalk. Just like the others up there.

  • So yeah, it's...

  • That's what it is.

  • Well, because this house was torn down.

  • a group of people in Franklin were probably at a party one night and one of them said,

  • "You know isn't it a shame. They tore down the Corn House. That was one of the most attractive houses in town."

  • And then they said, "Yeah, we've gotta do something about that."

  • So from a handful of people probably at a cocktail party one night the

  • idea for the Heritage Foundation was found.

  • I've collected ever since I was a little boy, and I mean I collect chairs and I collect furniture

  • This is called a baloo chair. This is a Warren chair. I'm not a hoarder, but I do like to accumulate things.

  • Look at this sweet lady.

  • I get calls people say you know do you want this?

  • Yeah, I'll take it.

  • Well Williamson County has had seven jails since 1800.

  • Then they built this one in 42 and when the sheriff moved to the new jail in 72

  • The county stripped out all the metal and sold it for scrap iron

  • It was just in terrible shape. Peeling paint and the nastiness. This building had been boarded up

  • It was leaking. The roof was just like a sieve. The commode was here.

  • It was an eyesore.

  • The city tried to sell it and then nobody wanted it. So when they kicked us out of the old post office we had to

  • Find another place and they sold us this building.

  • Took a lot of going out and raising some money

  • I mean I didn't have cash, but I had chairs.So I had donated 44 chairs

  • And I think they raised $12,400... and something dollars.

  • So that was my contribution

  • As a child I used to come here to see the movies, and it was fabulous. It was just such an interesting place to be.

  • This really brings back great memories, doesn't it?

  • So you don't remember the tiki look? - No, I didn't. | - It was pretty awful. - It is awful.

  • The theater over the years sold to an outside real estate group and they raised the rent a lot.

  • The people who'd been running the theater weren't making money, but they were breaking even.

  • With the new rent, they couldn't.

  • So the Heritage Foundation knew in January of 2007 that the building was going to go dark.

  • But we had an option to buy and we were getting towards the end of the option.

  • I just couldn't quit thinking about it.

  • And I just kept chewing on it and trying to think of how we could save this building.

  • Emily called me between 4:00 and 5:00 in the morning and said "maybe I could buy it."

  • I'm here today to tell you on behalf of the Heritage Foundation

  • That this theater is heading toward friendly hands.

  • I didn't want the building to get away

  • I mean it needed to still be a theater.

  • We were able to step forward and get this under contract because an angel loaner...

  • I don't think anybody's ever called me an angel.

  • People's mouths were on the floor because Emily has always been very modest. She doesn't talk about wealth;

  • People had no idea she had the capacity to do this.

  • I just have a philosophy you can't take it with you.

  • So why not give to something that really

  • everybody can enjoy.

  • What has been a challenge for the Heritage Foundation over the years is making sure that these kind of homes were not torn down

  • because when you lose a house like this

  • that really changes the whole complexion of the town.

  • If we lose many more we're really going to lose the historic value of the town.

  • This is the

  • McLemore House Museum built by Harvey McLemore an ex-slave in 1880

  • This is part of the true story, the whole story.

  • You cannot tell part of the story without talking about the slavery and the ex-slaves and Reconstruction

  • and what they did after they became free. We cannot give the Heritage Foundation enough credit.

  • They deeded the property to the African American Heritage Society for one dollar and it became

  • The McLemore House Museum. - [Voiceover] The first time I came over here

  • I knew it could be fixed up because it had good bones.

  • It needed to be saved. It needed to be fixed up. It need to be saved and it's a story that needed to be told.

  • We work together

  • to preserve and to share African American history because it's so so important.

  • Back in the seventies I was practicing law in the square, and I would walk across to the historic courtroom

  • You walk down Main Street, and there was no one to say hi to.

  • Literally someone did a calculation and it was 70% vacant.

  • We were that close in the late 70s of losing this downtown.

  • If you could see through the grime,

  • and then the cracked windows and the vacant buildings,

  • you saw this incredible profile. This architecture that didn't exist in most places.

  • The seminal move, I think, was forming the downtown committee

  • getting the coalition of the public and private sector to see the value of what could happen.

  • Building owners said "What can we do? How can we get back in the game," so to speak.

  • I mean, this is a living, breathing model of what community togetherness can create.

  • That momentum and organizational strength of the of the Williamson County and Franklin Heritage Foundation - they were the glue that kept this together.

  • This is beautiful.

  • Roper's Knob is the highest hill in Franklin

  • It was also used as the signal post during the Civil War and there are still earthworks on there

  • When the Heritage Foundation learned that it was being looked at for development

  • We were able to work with the Department of Archaeology

  • And with the Thousand Friends of Roper's Knob to buy that land and put a conservation easement on it and save it

  • If we don't save what we have here, then we're just going to become any-old-place-USA

  • Preservation is about managing change over time.

  • You have to be deliberate nothing happens by accident.

  • The role of the Heritage Foundation in the future is going to be the same as it is today.

  • It is to recognize what is so special about this community.

  • We can keep Franklin, but it's always a fragile thing.

  • Because it took us years to get where we are.

  • And it could be lost just as quickly.

  • People come in from out of state, out of town, and they say there's something special here.

  • This is what preservation is all about either you're gonna have this...

  • 108 acres of nice pleasant open space or 90 homes here.

  • I choose this.

You lose buildings one at a time.

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50年的保護 - 威廉姆森縣遺產基金會 (50 Years of Preservation - Heritage Foundation of Williamson County)

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