Mostly at a park level, projects encompass a broad range of research, operational, and educational activities across all aspects of cultural resource stewardship activities, including but not…

The National Park Service (NPS) awarded a $220,000 Cooperative Agreement on July 23, 2024 to the Lincoln Presidential Foundation under the Cultural Resources Management (CFDA 15.946) program. This project will contextualize the history of the Lincoln Home in Springfield, Illinois with the centennial of Route 66, by interpreting how the telling and experience of Lincoln's story has evolved over generations along the historic Route 66 corridor. The project encompasses a broad range of cultural resource stewardship activities, including inventory, monitoring, research, rehabilitation, documentation, and educational programming to provide visitors with insights into the changing narratives around Lincoln's legacy. The Lincoln Presidential Foundation, a non-profit focused on preserving and interpreting Abraham Lincoln's historical significance, will serve as the primary recipient and implement this project in collaboration with state and local government agencies, tribal governments, educational institutions, and other non-profit partners.

Mostly at a park level, projects encompass a broad range of research, operational, and educational activities across all aspects of cultural resource stewardship activities, including but not limited to inventory, monitoring, research, rehabilitation, reconstruction, restoration, preservation, documentation, data recovery, education, and climate change mitigation and adaptation. This project will place the long history of the lincoln home in context with the centennial of route 66 through the interpretation of changing ways in which the lincoln story has been told and experienced over generations along route 66. Providing visitors with insight into how the telling and experiencing of our history has evolved.beneficiaries include state and local governments, federally recognized indian tribal governments, nonprofit organizations, educational or scientific institutions, associations, individuals.