Cooperative Agreement P16AC01402

This $600,000 Cooperative Agreement was awarded on September 10, 2024 by the National Park Service (NPS) Northeast Region under the Heritage Partnership Program (CFDA 15.939). The award recipient is Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor, Inc., a non-profit organization based in Whitinsville, Massachusetts that is dedicated to preserving, interpreting, and promoting the cultural, historical, and natural resources of the Blackstone River Valley region. Through this cooperative...

This $750,000 Project Grant was awarded by the National Park Service under the Historic Preservation Fund Grants-In-Aid program (CFDA 15.904) to the Pioneer Valley Regional Ventures Center, Inc. in Massachusetts. The funding will support a subgrant program to rehabilitate historic properties in rural communities in western Massachusetts. The goal is to foster economic development through the preservation of National Register-listed or eligible historic sites. Allowable activities include...

The Department of the Interior National Park Service awarded a $1 million Project Grant to Rivers of Steel Heritage Corporation under the Save America's Treasures federal grant program (CFDA 15.929). The grant will fund repairs to the Power House of Carrie Blast Furnaces, including masonry and ramp repairs or replacement. Rivers of Steel Heritage Corporation will deliver historic preservation services from April 1, 2023 to September 30, 2026 to support the nationally significant industrial...

The National Park Service awarded a $1,000,000 Historic Preservation Fund Grants-In-Aid (CFDA 15.904) project grant to the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) on September 1, 2023. The grant will fund physical preservation activities on state-owned National Register listed cultural resources related to the founding of the nation in commemoration of the United States Semiquincentennial (250th Anniversary). Specific preservation work will include cleaning, repointing,...

This Project Grant award of $500,000 from the National Park Service (NPS) Historic Preservation Fund Grants-in-Aid for Competitive Grants program (CFDA 15.966) supports collections conservation and storage at the Tomaquag Indian Memorial Museum in Exeter, Rhode Island. The award will assist the museum, a minority-owned non-profit educational institution, in identifying, evaluating, and protecting historic indigenous properties and cultural resources in southern New England through preservation...

This $200,000 federal Project Grant award from the National Park Service's American Battlefield Protection Program (CFDA 15.926) will support the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) in guiding the interpretation of the Wallace House historic battlefield site. The project will run from September 2025 through August 2028. The funding will enable NJDEP to identify, evaluate, interpret, and protect this significant armed conflict site through non-acquisition activities. This...

The National Park Service (NPS) awarded a $1,500,000 Cooperative Agreement under the Heritage Partnership Program (CFDA 15.939) to the Washington Trust for Historic Preservation. The award will support the implementation of a National Heritage Area Management Plan, which will provide a framework for interpretation, conservation, and development of heritage resources within the designated National Heritage Area based on an extensive community planning process. The plan will guide a range of...

This $103,534 federal Project Grant award from the National Park Service's Historic Preservation Fund Grants-in-Aid program (CFDA 15.966) was made to the Friends of Washington Crossing Park, Inc. to develop programs at the Washington Crossing Historic Park in Pennsylvania. The grant will fund a broad range of historical preservation and interpretation projects, including survey and planning, research and documentation, interpretation and education, and collections conservation focused on the...

The National Park Service awarded a $750,000 Historic Preservation Fund Grants-In-Aid (CFDA 15.904) project grant to the Mississippi Heritage Trust Inc., a non-profit organization, to rehabilitate the Riverside Hotel in Clarksdale, Mississippi. This culturally significant site hosted many famous Black artists and represents multiple eras of the African American civil rights movement. The grant will fund architectural services, historic structure reports, preservation plans, and physical...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Park Service (NPS) under the Cooperative Research and Training Programs - Resources of the National Park System (CFDA 15.945) provides $237,418.00 in funding to the National Council on Public History, Inc. (NCPH) to conduct research and documentation related to the preservation and interpretation of Black history in the Intermountain West region. The primary objectives of this 2.5-year project are to achieve a better understanding of the state...