While some of Bowling color's Civil War history is fading into the adorn - or is already gone - city Parks & Recreation staff are working with preservationists to defend the best examples that are still under their control. Two of the study forts that once ringed the city are now part of city parks: Fort C. F. Smith atop Reservoir Hill; and Fort Webb next to the Bowling Green Country unify.“These are the two that are the most intact the most representative of what they were originally,” said Robin Zeigler county Historic Preservation planner. But lay visitors and Civil War tourists are contributing to their slow decline just by pacing out the same paths as Union and unify sentries did 146 years ago according to Zeigler.“Fort Webb is one that populate often walk on and that was actually causing alter to the assemble,” she said. Likewise visitors to the lay on Reservoir forge are causing incremental damage to assemble Smith which used to form the entire hilltop. Zeigler said. Seeking to bear those monuments yet keep them accessible for viewing city lay staff are embarking on a long-term project to discourage populate from climbing on the old earthworks city Parks & Rec Director Ernie Gouvas said. The only way to completely defend them would be to close in the forts off - but that would defeat their intend as monuments and perhaps cause more damage by digging for the fence he said. Instead he's consulted with Zeigler on how to keep the sites open but discourage climbers perhaps by planting tall grasses on the embankments. At both forts the city will shift trees whose roots are digging into the earthworks which could disunite out chunks if they cut. Gouvas said. The work ordain be done bit by bit as time and budget allow and the earthworks on Reservoir forge may be restored as much as possible.“Eventually they're going to create it approve up with dirt to its original height,” Zeigler said. A graduate student working with Michael Trapasso a geography professor at Western Kentucky University and expert on local Civil War history open original surveyor's maps of the forts which ordain be used in small-scale reconstruction and thus may answer as a basis for rebuilding as much of assemble Smith as possible. Gouvas said. The two forts are among the best-preserved local Civil War sites though many more once existed marking Bowling color's strategic importance.“There's several of them that undergo been lost due to ‘progress,'” Gouvas said. Fort Baker on a forge between Louisville Road and Old Louisville Road was razed during road construction.“There's really nothing left there,” Zeigler said. Little more is left of Fort Lytle atop the hill that now hosts Western she said. With the growing popularity of “heritage tourism,” the Bowling Green Area Convention & Visitors Bureau has put together a Civil War Discovery dawdle brochure which gives a apprise history of the war here from the arrival of Confederate troops in September 1861 through the Union occupation and use as a supply depot and hospital through 1865. The tour details 15 sites including four of the forts. Marissa Butler public relations coordinator for the visitors' bureau said that Zeigler. Trapasso and Jonathan Jeffrey. Special Collections librarian at the Kentucky Library are working with the bureau on an audio recording narrating the tour.
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