Thought I'd put in my 2 cents' worth: your website was SO valuable to me,
last year when I was working for the Department of Historic Resources as
developmental editor of the upcoming edition of the guidebook to the
markers, and this year when I was again working for them (this time
"cleaning up" the Access database of the markers).  I was so thankful to
have the photos of the markers (to check the texts against) and to have the
locations you gave.  Thank you, thank you!  :-)

Susan Bracey Sheppard
Copyeditor
WordsRight


>From: "Jason O. Watson" <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: Discussion of research and writing about Virginia history
>      <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Virginia's Historical Markers
>Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 13:23:04 -0400
>
>Hello,
>
>I am new to this listserv, but after reviewing the past topics of
>discussion, I thought that it might be helpful and/or interesting to some
>here for me to share a project to catalog Virginia's historical markers
>that I have been working on for the past few years.
>
>I have traveled much of the state photographing and taking GPS coordinates
>of the various historical markers in Virginia (and some in other states
>that I have come across).  This data is incorporated into my web site
>located at http://www.historical-markers.org  The project includes an
>interactive web map which shows the location of each marker along with
>photographs, text descriptions and location directions for each marker
>loaded.  To date, I have recorded over 1,200+ VA markers (1,600+ total) on
>the site and I hope to visit and include the approximately 1,000-1,500
>remaining Virginia markers in the coming months.
>
>To my knowledge, this is the largest collection of such data (with respect
>to Virginia's markers) available on the Internet.  I hope that it can be a
>useful resource for those on this list, if not then at least an
>interesting diversion.  I welcome any feedback, ideas, or suggestions to
>help improve the site.
>
>Kind Regards,
>Jason O. Watson
>Charlottesville, VA
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