March 12, 2025
By: Dwayne Page
New names!
During Tuesday night’s meeting, the public works committee of the county commission voted to rename the history room, arcade room, and art room at the county complex to give them a more distinguishable identity subject to final approval by the full county commission.
The committee is recommending that the history room be renamed “The Tennessee Room”, that the arcade room be given the name “The DeKalb Room” and that the art room be called “The Classroom”.
Since the county complex was opened in 2012 the rooms had names for their intended purposes. Arcade games were originally placed in the arcade room for youth to gather but over time they were removed. Although the history room was meant to have been used to display county historical artifacts it was never developed for that purpose. Both rooms remain vacant but are often used by senior citizens and other groups. The art room is located near the main auditorium of the complex and its purpose is also primarily for the public to meet or gather.
Meanwhile, the committee also voted to recommend that any historical displays be placed in the county offices end of the county complex down the hallway by the offices of the county clerk, register of deeds, trustee, etc. provided it meets with the approval of the full county commission and state fire marshal. The idea is to make the displays more highly visible to the public while keeping them in a more secure environment. If approved it may take some time to organize such an effort in that the county currently has no panels, cabinets, or display cases for historical artifacts.