Old homes can be restored into comfortable homes of today or they can be refurbished as an office.
Historic sites can honor the past while providing a place for leisure activities.
An old church can still hold worship services similar to those held one hundred years ago. A number of programs exist to help individuals and groups temporarily or permanently protect sites and structures considered significant. The past is a building block for the future and, if a plan is to be comprehensive, it must incorporate that past as a key element of planning for the future. Historic preservation is a program which involves the inventorying, researching, restoration, and on-going protection of sites and structures having a significant local or national historic interest. There are a number of structures and sites within the County that are of historic, cultural, or architectural significance.