Thomasville Community Landmarks Trail: Multi-Use Trail Master Plan and Recreational Amenity Analysis
Smith and Associates. 2011. Thomasville Community Landmarks Trail: Multi-Use Trail Master Plan and Recreational Amenity Analysis. Historic Thomasville Georgia; Historic Preservation Division, Georgia Department of Natural Resources. Thomasville, Georgia
"The Thomasville Community Landmarks Multi-Use Trail concept is to implement a trail system that will connect the city’s historic districts and neighborhoods to existing parks and economic development centers such as business parks, shopping centers and downtown. The trail will include a downtown trail-head located at the corner of Jackson & Madison Streets. The trail-head will feature a new 900 seat amphitheater, interactive water feature and community pavilion. The trail system will complement investments in parks, streetscapes, and other infrastructure projects to both enhance existing neighborhoods and incentivize revitalization of the city’s declining areas. The trail project will create more than 14 miles of paved surface trails around the city utilizing existing right-of-way corridors. The trail is divided into 5 phases with construction to begin on phase 1 in 2011. The trails will be multi-use – for walkers, joggers, bikers, roller-bladers, and people with disabilities. The trail will be hard surfaced and 10’ wide with pedestrian scale lighting. The trail will include both wayfinding signage and narrative signs describing unique historic resources along the trail route. While the initial 13 miles of trails are identified in this masterplan, additional spur segments to link together more neighborhoods will be identified in future redevelopment plans similar to the Victoria Place Urban Redevelopment Plan." Project funding was provided in part by a 2008 Preserve America grant (Georgia’s Community Landmark Heritage Tourism Initiative) to the City of Thomasville administered by the Georgia State Historic Preservation Office (grant number 13-08-AP-4112) administered by the State, Tribal, and Local Plans and Grants Division, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior.
- Type
- Generic Document
- Authors
- Smith and Associates
- Date of Issue
- 2011-02
- Publisher
- Historic Thomasville Georgia; Historic Preservation Division, Georgia Department of Natural Resources
- Units
- HPF
- Keywords
- Preservation Plans (Municipality); Economic Impact Studies; Wayfinding Plans and Studies; Preserve America Grants