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Minutes - September 5, 2017

City of Pacific Historical Committee Meeting.


Volunteers in attendance:

Mark Bowns (chair),
Jeanne Fancher,
Don Blackwell,
Jim Meier,
Paula Wiech (from City Planning)
  • Online view of Pacific's web site and other cities discussed.
  • Mark brought an online video (recommended by Jim Morgan) with information on a Walnut Creek, California historical (and art) walking tour. 
https://youtu.be/rLVt6jH4eKE
  • Walnut Creek has implemented the tour for people to explore by means of a smart phone, apps, street signage, (audio version also available). Over one hundred locations are discussed.  Web site available at all times over the entire world via the Internet..
  • Tumwater, Washington also has a similar online set up with each indicated location not longer than three minutes in duration.
  • Pacific's Interurban trail could have locations like Walnut Creek
  • Pacific could mark each location with GPS coordinates thereby becoming a part of a geocaching network.
  • Goals for Historical Committee:
    1. Repository of Historical Information (data base).
    2. Geographic locations within the city for signage of past events important to the growth of  the city.
    3. Internet Access as guide to various historical spots of interest for a walking tour of the town.
    4. Determine subjects that may or may not be used for our historical tourists and citizens' scavenger hunt.
    5. Signs in the larger parks that explain their historical creation.