by gmcdaniel4444@gmail.com | Dec 18, 2021 | Blog, Community Engagement, Conservation, Planning
The Ashley River, just upstream from Bacon’s Bridge. Rosebrock Park is on the left. Connecting two parks on diagonally opposite sides of a river? Simple, right? Just build a bridge. But the river is scenic. The four-lane road is busy with traffic, and...
by gmcdaniel4444@gmail.com | Nov 12, 2021 | Blog, Community Engagement, Conservation, Planning
Charleston Post and Courier – front page story By Jerrel Floyd, Nov 11, 2021 George McDaniel, chairman of the Dorchester Trust Foundation, has worked to raise awareness around protecting the Ashley River. He questions why the area needs a gas station...
by gmcdaniel4444@gmail.com | Nov 9, 2021 | Blog, Community Engagement, Conservation, Planning, Whole Place Preservation
As chairman of the Dorchester Trust Foundation, which owns Rosebrock Park as a nature-based park leased to the county, we are charged with protecting it and its nearby resources. Its health is now threatened by an in-and-out gas station directly across the road...
by gmcdaniel4444@gmail.com | Mar 25, 2019 | Blog, Community Engagement, Conservation, Historic Preservation, Outreach, Planning, Whole Place Preservation
The Conservation of South Carolina’s Ashley River The Ashley Scenic River Advisory Council Meeting – March 2019 The designation of the Ashley River as a SC State Scenic River by the Dept. of Natural Resources in the late 1990s called into...
by gmcdaniel4444@gmail.com | Jan 24, 2019 | Blog, Board Development, Community Engagement, Historic Preservation, Interpretation, Outreach, Planning, Publication, Whole Place Preservation
by George W. McDaniel for The Southern Edge Magazine, Winter 2018 One day in the mid-1990s, I drove from my home in Summerville to Bacon’s Bridge over the Ashley River and spent several hours enjoying the tranquil beauty and deep sense of history the place...