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(rshsdepot) Ft. Payne, AL

-From the Gadsden (AL) Times...

House votes to cut funding for historic sites

By Dana Beyerle
Times Montgomery Bureau

MONTGOMERY - The House has cut the appropriation to state-owned historic
sites by more than $500,000 and cut another $607,500 to non-state historic
sites, including the Fort Payne Historical train depot.

The House version of next year's $1.2 billion General Fund passed last week
that now goes to the Senate eliminates state funding by $607,500 to 17
historical sites not owned by the state and cuts spending to nine
state-owned historical sites by $907,675.

...The General Fund passed by the House contains no money for the three
historic train depots and museums in DeKalb and Jackson counties, including
the Fort Payne Depot.

The three were appropriated $60,000 this fiscal year.

Senate President Pro Tem Lowell Barron, D-Fyffe, said he plans to seek
funding for the three depots when the budget gets to the Senate.

''These are three tiny projects and they're the most historic depots in
Alabama dating back to the 1800s,'' Barron said. ''The Civil War was fought
all around there.

''Let's either cut them all out or let's be fair,'' Barron said.

A spokesman with the Fort Payne Depot could not be reached for comment.

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