CANTON — Canton Mayor Bill Grant, alongside some of the city’s leading community members, sat down Tuesday evening to have a public discussion on how the Canton has changed and
Canton resident Dan Owen has worked over the past four decades to ensure the county trail system is clean and beautiful for residents who walk along them.
Owen said he started clean up work on the trail system around 45 years ago as a county sponsored bicentennial project, and has continued to work along the trail system ever since. Along with help from dozens of volunteers and local groups who share the same desire as he does, community members have been able to hike and traverse the trails for many decades now.
âBeing a lifelong Canton resident, I have always been interested in the history of the city,â Owen said. âSo when the Cherokee County Historical Society started in 1975 as a part of a bicentennial project, I became involved with that. I was, and still am very passionate about the trail system that came to be through this project.â