then-outgoing secretary of the interior bruce babbitt and others visited buford in 2000. and with a simple thought and a simple mission. to look at the buildings, the landscape, the environment of buford which was essential to understanding the early days and tenants of reconstruction, potentially with an opportunity to establish some sort of park service presence in that area. because in 2000, as it is in 2016, there are no national park service directly associated that chronicles and talks about the history of reconstruction. just to give you some background, we began our journey after the doctor and the secretary of the interior left. we then transitioned into the bush administration and we still continued, as we say the silly tocivil war sally forthed accomplish that task. we reached out to partners like the city of buford, folks on hilton head island. the city of buford, the county of buford, we try to cast a wide net of partnership and inclusion in an effort to go about the task. from the political side, we did reach out politically to at that point, the congressman