Preserve America is a White House initiative in cooperation with the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation; the U.S. Departments of Defense, Interior, Agriculture, Commerce, Housing and Urban Development, Transportation, and Education; the National Endowment for the Humanities; the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities; and the President's Council on Environmental Quality.

Preserve America Community:
Greensburg, Kentucky

Greensburg (population 2,396), located on the Green River in south-central Kentucky, was founded in 1794. Downtown Greensburg is listed in the National Register of Historic Places as a historic district and includes early stone buildings, a log house, and early brick commercial buildings arranged around a public square.

Greensburg has worked with The Nature Conservancy, the Green County Conservation District, the Cumberland-Green Lakes Resource Conservation and Development District, local businesses, and citizens on an environmental education project about the Green River.

The city provides The Nature Conservancy with the historic Greensburg Water Plant complex (1936) to use as an information center and museum about the Green River, "the fourth most-biologically diverse river in the world." The building and an adjacent water tank also feature a lively mural of the river entitled, "The River Runs Through It," by a local artist.

For more information

City of Greensburg: www.greensburgonline.com
Greensburg-Green County Chamber of Commerce: www.greensburgky.com

Updated November 23, 2004

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