I'm gonna call the meeting of the Historic Preservation Commission to order the first item or the minutes from last meeting.

I

make a motion to approve.

Any other discussion?

All those in favor?

Alright, thank you.

But I'm gonna shift the agenda around a little so we have Thomas Chappelle, he's with the City of Marietta GIS department, and he's got a really cool system he's developed that he's gonna share with

us.

Hello everyone.

Yes, my name is Thomas Chappelle, and I work for the city's GIS department.

And first off, I am actually gonna show you some mouse.

Oh uh under here, that's it.

That's it.

Um I'm gonna show you how to get to my application.

So from the city's website, um let's see.

All

you gotta do to get it at home on your desktop is just type in historic Marietta Explorer.

That's the name of my application that I've made here.

Um if you mistype it or anything, it'll come up right here.

And this link right here will take you right to

it.

So a little background on why I made this.

Uh I was inspired for the 250th anniversary of a US, and I got this idea from the city of Tallahassee actually.

Their GIS department had something similar.

So I thought, let's see if I can find any pictures of Marietta from the past.

And so I'll just jump right in.

When you open the application, it uh opens with this sort of entryway, this instruction panel that gives you a little overview of what's in the map along with any of the sources that I got my content from.

Uh it's a wide range of places.

I got it from here at the city, I got it from the History Center, uh, the Fire Museum, and some online places such as the Digital Library of Georgia and Library of Congress.

Um but I'm gonna hit enter here, and this is where it opens up.

It's gonna show you a map of the city, and it's kind of like Google Maps where you can scroll in and see the streets of the city, but these icons all represent photos of the city spanning from a range of about 1890 all the way to 1990.

So that's about 200 years worth of pictures, and I've collected probably over 150 different pictures.

Um each point can either have one to five different photos on it.

Um when you go in and click on a point, it'll show you this picture right here of the Brumby family on the square in uh 1902.

And like I said, each point can have multiple photos.

So the number, number one, the first picture is the Brumby family.

You're gonna have East Park Square in 1910.

The next photo.

And then I also kind of included some modern day photos of that same site.

So if you look here, here's East Park Square in 1910, and here's 2026.

So I've kind of tried my best to place each point to the look uh accurate location of the picture.

Um some of them are a little harder to decipher, especially being so old.

Um, but also if you don't want to scroll around the map, you can just scroll down this slideshow on the right, and each one is a point on the map.

So if you keep scrolling, you can see throughout the city.

And when you click on a slide, it'll take you right to that location.

So here's a picture of the fire department on the square in 1915.

Um this one's a pretty commonly known one.

Um so yeah, you can scroll and scroll and see, like I said, over 150 pictures.

I'm still actually adding pictures to it because I recently visited the fire museum and they gave me about 20 binders full of old photos.

So I've still got probably 50 more photos to add.

Um but a lot of these first few photos are a lot older ones.

But when you keep scrolling down, you're gonna see some in color that are a little more recent.

So here's the strand, or what was in the past it was Liberty Church in 1993.

And like I said, I created a sort of side by side of what that picture looks like today.

So there's the strand, and then you go back, there's Liberty Church.

So I've kind of described this as just a one-stop shop for everything history for the City of Marietta, because not only do I have photos in here, I've also have all the sandborn maps of the City of Marietta, and I don't know if any of you guys have heard of it, but the Sandborne Company came throughout the city and made maps of the downtown area and collected the materials of each building for fire insurance purposes.

And they are pretty much all over the square, but when you turn those on and then you can turn the photos off, you can actually zoom in and see what the square used to look like in 1885.

Um I think this is pretty cool because it's a lot different than what it is today.

So uh like I said, it goes all the way from 1885 all the way to 1911.

And so you can kind of get lost with adding them all on there.