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Chris Graham
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The city of Waynesboro won a $7,500 grant from the Shenandoah Valley Battlefields Foundation that will help the city with planned improvements at the Old Presbyterian Cemetery.
The grant award was announced last week in conjunction with several others included in the foundation's 2004 implementation grants funding program.
The program is oriented toward assisting communities and community-based organizations with Civil War-era historic-preservation projects that they might not otherwise be able to undertake, according to foundation chairman Dan Stickley.
The grants - funded by federal taxpayers on behalf of the Shenandoah Valley Battlefields National Historic District - pay for a maximum of 80 percent of project cost, with the applicant providing at least 20 percent of the cost.
The 2004 grants totaled more than $132,000.
The program has awarded more $600,000 to communities and community organizations since its inception six years ago and has leveraged more than $2.5 million for projects in the Shenandoah Valley.
"The foundation's partners have accomplished a great deal in the last several years, and a good portion of that has been done through the implementation grants program," Stickley said.
The Waynesboro project at the Old Presbyterian Cemetery will feature site improvements, basic restoration efforts and the placement of signage at the cemetery location, which sits a few hundred yards away from the Plumb House Museum, a Virginia Civil War Trails site.
Three Rockingham County-based groups also won grants in the 2004 funding cycle. The Cross Keys-Goods Mill Historical Society was awarded $10,000 for the development of an audio tour, "Shenandoah Shun-piking: A Historic Drive Through the Valley," and an accompanying guide book to guide visitors to the historic sites in Rockingham County.
The Society of Port Republic Preservationists won two grants - $5,500 for establishment of a research and orientation center in the Port Republic Museum and $5,900 for landscape repair and rehabilitation at Riverside Graveyard.
The Valley Brethren-Mennonite Heritage Center was awarded $10,000 to begin the implementation of a restoration plan at Turner’s Mill, which will be used to interpret the story of the pacifist Dunkard and Mennonite community at the time of the Civil War.
Chris Graham is the co-publisher of The Augusta Free Press.
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Around Town
Chris Graham
chris@augustafreepress.com
The city of Waynesboro won a $7,500 grant from the Shenandoah Valley Battlefields Foundation that will help the city with planned improvements at the Old Presbyterian Cemetery.
The grant award was announced last week in conjunction with several others included in the foundation's 2004 implementation grants funding program.
The program is oriented toward assisting communities and community-based organizations with Civil War-era historic-preservation projects that they might not otherwise be able to undertake, according to foundation chairman Dan Stickley.
The grants - funded by federal taxpayers on behalf of the Shenandoah Valley Battlefields National Historic District - pay for a maximum of 80 percent of project cost, with the applicant providing at least 20 percent of the cost.
The 2004 grants totaled more than $132,000.
The program has awarded more $600,000 to communities and community organizations since its inception six years ago and has leveraged more than $2.5 million for projects in the Shenandoah Valley.
"The foundation's partners have accomplished a great deal in the last several years, and a good portion of that has been done through the implementation grants program," Stickley said.
The Waynesboro project at the Old Presbyterian Cemetery will feature site improvements, basic restoration efforts and the placement of signage at the cemetery location, which sits a few hundred yards away from the Plumb House Museum, a Virginia Civil War Trails site.
Three Rockingham County-based groups also won grants in the 2004 funding cycle. The Cross Keys-Goods Mill Historical Society was awarded $10,000 for the development of an audio tour, "Shenandoah Shun-piking: A Historic Drive Through the Valley," and an accompanying guide book to guide visitors to the historic sites in Rockingham County.
The Society of Port Republic Preservationists won two grants - $5,500 for establishment of a research and orientation center in the Port Republic Museum and $5,900 for landscape repair and rehabilitation at Riverside Graveyard.
The Valley Brethren-Mennonite Heritage Center was awarded $10,000 to begin the implementation of a restoration plan at Turner’s Mill, which will be used to interpret the story of the pacifist Dunkard and Mennonite community at the time of the Civil War.
Chris Graham is the co-publisher of The Augusta Free Press.
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