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Counting Civil War signs across Georgia

The job is simple, repetitive, fascinating: Get in the car. Drive. Find a Civil War historical marker. Note its condition, location, etc.
Return to car. Repeat the process 900-plus times.

That's OK with Will Hanley. With rental car, computer and maps, the 28-year-old Savannah resident is compiling an inventory of Civil War markers across Georgia. Working for the Georgia Historical Society, Hanley is finding signs on roadsides and in state parks, in the blanket-flat reaches of southeast Georgia and the rumpled folds of the state's northwest region. It's part of the state's plan to observe the 150th anniversary of the 1861-1865 war.

Hanley began his travels in late August, blogging as he went. Compiling the inventory should take about 11 months. The society is making the count with a grant for $132,307 from the state Department of Economic Development. When complete, the inventory will help the organization plan a series of historical driving trails it wants completed by 2011, the first year of the sesquicentennial.
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