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The Tourism Resource Team
• Brent Runyon
Brent, the Executive Director of Thomasville
Landmarks, Inc., received his Master of Historic
Preservation degree from the University of Georgia
in 2005. While at UGA, he focused on community
planning and affordable housing issues, and worked
on several community-based design
charrettes. After graduate school, he attended a
summer service learning program in Ghana, West
Africa, where he and five others created a heritage
tourism plan to help boost the local economy. In his
five years at Landmarks, Brent has led the
organization through a $300,000 endowment
building campaign and overseen the rehabilitation of
their headquarters, the 1833 Hardy Bryan
House. His most recent initiatives include adding
the Dewey City Historic District to the National
Register of Historic Places and writing a demolition
ordinance for the City of Thomasville.
Thomasville Landmarks, Inc.
P.O. Box 1285, 312 North Broad Street
Thomasville, Georgia 31799
v.229.226.6016 | f.229.226.6672
tli@rose.net
www.thomasvillelandmarks.org
• Michael Jacobs
Michael is the Preservation Planner/Senior Planner
with the Southern Georgia Regional Commission
since 1995. Previously, he worked with the Center
For Low Country Studies, Tybee Island Lighthouse
& Museum, and the Georgia Department of Natural
Resources at Wormsloe Plantation State Historic
Site. In his current role Michael serves the
counties of Atkinson, Bacon, Ben Hill, Berrien,
Brantley, Brooks, Charlton, Clinch, Coffee, Cook,
Echols, Irwin, Lanier, Lowndes, Pierce, Tift, Turner
and Ware
Region 11. Southern Georgia Regional
Commission - http://www.sgrc.us
912-285-6067
mvjacobs@sgrc.us
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