There is

history right beneath your feet and the Peachtree City

Heritage Historcal Preservation Committee wants you to

know it. This past weekend, the group began planting

their accent gardens in front of historical gravesites.

There are 26 gravesites catalogued in Peachtree City and

it has taken the preservation committee over a year and a

half to get to the point where they are at now, the

planting stage.

The first

gravesite is on Ga.Hwy.54, about a mile past the

library/city hall complex. It is the where the Stinchcomb

family: Nathan, wife Susannah, daughter Molisia and son

Andrew were buried. The graves date back to the late

1800's. If you travel on 54, you pass tthe site everyday

and until someone put an accent garden in front of it,

you had probably never seen it before.

The accent

gardens were dug by the city, Raven Homes contributed to

the project and the flowers and plants were donated by

Natures Nursery. The people who were digging in the dirt

and digging in the past for the past year and a half are

the ones who deserve the most credit, they were the ones

who were up at the crack of dawn on Saturday. The group's

chairperson David Piet, Geri Holt, Gail Gould and

councilwoman Annie McMinneman had their hands in the dirt

and their hearts set on community awareness of the

history that surrounds them.

"These

sites often date back to the War between the

States," said Geri Holt. "This is part of the

city's history and it's something that many people are

interested in." They planted Honeycomb, Butterfly

plants, Verbena, Adam's Needle and Lantana. The same

types of flower and plants are in front of the other

site, off of Ga. Hwy. 74, right after the Bluebery Hill

subdivision. It is the gravesite of William A Leach, a

private in the Confederate States Army, and his wife

Sarah Denha Leach.

The gardens

have already involved the community. on the way to the

Leach site, John Page, a resident of the Blueberry Hills

subdivision brought out his hose for the group to use.

The city will continue to do maintenance on the area, but

the plants and flowers are fairly low maintenance. The

group extended their gratitude to all of the people that

have helped their project along, especially Fayette

County historian, Carolyn Cary. The group will be

planting more gardens at more sites in the future and

then they will study the non-indigenous plants growth at

these sites.

"We

hope that people will appreciate the beauty of the

gardens, as well as the history that surrounds

them," said Geri Holt. "We hope that by

bringing history to this well-planned city, they'll be

able to understand their future."

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