Fred Caesar, president of the Friends of Saxonburg Musuem, shows the plastic that has had to be put up around the base of the John Roebling Wirerope Workshop to prevent water from getting into the structure Friday afternoon, June 23, on the Roebling Park grounds in Saxonburg. Shane Potter/Butler Eagle

Fred Caesar is on a mission to preserve historic sites in Butler County for future generations, which he feels can learn much from the past.

Caesar, president of the Friends of Saxonburg Museum, said the demise of aging infrastructure such as the John Roebling Wirerope Workshop in Saxonburg has the potential end to the stories these sites have to tell.

Caesar recently has been advocating an idea that could help not just the Roebling workshop, but other historical sites like it in Butler County.

“There is a need for aging historical infrastructure in the Butler County area,” Caesar said. “I was trying to come up with a way we could move some of the hotel tax and take a percentage of it and use it to put together a pool of money that could then be allocated based on the county commissioners to help maintain the historical infrastructure.”