Cobb okays new signs for parks

A new sign system will be established throughout Cobb County parks. Among those parks is the Cherokee Garden at Green Meadows Preserve on Dallas Highway in Cobb County due mainly to the work of Tony Harris, a citizen of the Cherokee Nation and president of the Georgia Trail of Tears Association. Thanks to Harris, this garden now contains many of the plants used by the Cherokee people for food, medicine, weapons, tools and ceremonies. Also, the garden has been designated as an Interpretive Site on The Trail of Tears National Historic Trail. nps.gov/trte. Courtesy of Georgia Native Plant Society at GNPS.org

A new sign system will be established throughout Cobb County parks. Among those parks is the Cherokee Garden at Green Meadows Preserve on Dallas Highway in Cobb County due mainly to the work of Tony Harris, a citizen of the Cherokee Nation and president of the Georgia Trail of Tears Association. Thanks to Harris, this garden now contains many of the plants used by the Cherokee people for food, medicine, weapons, tools and ceremonies. Also, the garden has been designated as an Interpretive Site on The Trail of Tears National Historic Trail. nps.gov/trte. Courtesy of Georgia Native Plant Society at GNPS.org

New signs for Cobb County parks were approved Aug. 28 by the Cobb County Board of Commissioners.

Pond & Company will be paid $85,610 to provide professional design services for parks signage and wayfinding design standards under the 2016 PARKS Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax (SPLOST) Program.

No new maintenance or operational costs are associated with this project.

Since the establishment of the Cobb County Parks Department in 1966, a variety of different signage programs have been followed, according to PARKS Director Jimmy Gisi.

“Cobb residents and park visitors would benefit from a consistent and coordinated park signage and wayfinding system for locating park entrances and for navigating to various locations and facilities within the parks,” Gisi said in an Aug. 28 memo to Cobb County Manager Rob Hosack.