By News Staff on Thu, 12/10/2020 - 00:00
  • City of Rockdale gives foundation key to old City Hall
    City of Rockdale gives foundation key to old City Hall
  • City of Rockdale gives foundation key to old City Hall
    City of Rockdale gives foundation key to old City Hall
  • City of Rockdale gives foundation key to old City Hall
    City of Rockdale gives foundation key to old City Hall
  • City of Rockdale gives foundation key to old City Hall
    City of Rockdale gives foundation key to old City Hall
  • City of Rockdale gives foundation key to old City Hall
    City of Rockdale gives foundation key to old City Hall
  • City of Rockdale gives foundation key to old City Hall
    City of Rockdale gives foundation key to old City Hall

    People attending the key ceremony Thursday on Burleson Street next to the old City Hall await the start of the presentation.

    At left, Vision Historic Preservation Foundation Managing Director Collier Perry opened the ceremony talking about the foundation’s plans for the old building. At right, Lynn Forney Young of the Milam County Historical Commission was the keynote speaker at the ceremony Thursday in downtown Rockdale.

    Milam County and Rockdale officials were on hand Thursday for the key presentation that officially turned over the old City Hall at Burleson and Cameron streets to the Vision Historic Preservation Foundation. The foundation has plans to restore the old building to its original glory that has been hidden and changed over the past almost 100 years.

    This is how the old City Hall looked around the early 1900s when it was finally completed. The building plans were contracted March 4, 1895, with the goal of having the work finished by September. But a dispute caused the work to be stopped in August of that year and records show the building was not completed until the fall of 1901.