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770-335-6592
P.O. Box 1968 Â Darien, GA 31305, USA
FRIENDS OF THE KIT JONES a 501c3 non-profit
Bringing history back to Darien...
100% of your donations go towards this restoration project!
We have no administrative overhead ~ we're all volunteers!
Commemorative bricks are available to purchase and will be installed in the walkways around the park!
WHY WE ARE...
Mission Statement:
The restoration, preservation, and appreciation of the vessel Kit Jones as an historic, cultural and educational resource for McIntosh County and other coastal Georgia communities.
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Goals:
-- To document the history of the Kit Jones and seek a listing on the National Register of Historic Places;
-- To restore and maintain the Kit Jones for educational and cultural purposes that reflect community identity and heritage;
-- To promote the Kit Jones as a community economic development opportunity for heritage tourism and downtown revitalization.
Grassroots preservation is empty pocketbooks, bloody fingers, and private satisfactions. It is long hours, hard work, and no pay. It is a personal dialogue with ghosts. It is a face-to-face confrontation with the past... It is an equation between self and history so powerful that it makes us lie down in front of bulldozers, raise toppled statues, salvage old boats.
Peter Neill
45th National Preservation Conference [1991]
CONTACT FRIENDS OF THE KIT JONES
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