The National Park Service awarded a $2,044,537.50 Project Grant under the Battlefield Land Acquisition Grants (BLAG) program (CFDA 15.928) to Kershaw County, South Carolina on June 10, 2022. The grant will fund the acquisition of a 15.79-acre tract of land at Hobkirk Hill Battlefield from the Palmetto Conservation Foundation by Kershaw County as the sub-recipient. The property will then be transferred to and preserved in perpetuity by the South Carolina Battleground Preservation Trust, with a...
The Department of the Interior's National Park Service awarded a $515,210 Battlefield Land Acquisition Grant (CFDA 15.928) to the State of North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources to assist in the acquisition and preservation of the 86.36-acre McQuiston-Malloy tract at the Wyse Fork Battlefield. The grant enabled the permanent protection of this historic battlefield land through the American Battlefield Trust's purchase of the tract and subsequent conveyance of a conservation easement...
The National Park Service's Battlefield Land Acquisition Grants program (CFDA 15.928) awarded a $258,978.21 grant to the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) to support the non-federal acquisition of the 1.78-acre Saunders Tract on the Petersburg Battlefield. The American Battlefield Trust, as the sub-recipient, will acquire the property and hold the title as the landowner. This grant project, with a performance period from March 2024 to March 2027, aims to permanently...
The U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service awarded a $794,245.25 Project Grant under the CFDA 15.928 Battlefield Land Acquisition Grants program to the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation. The grant funds will be used to assist the state and local communities in acquiring and preserving 7.11 acres of threatened battlefield land at the Cold Harbor Battlefield, which is part of the 384 battlefields identified in the 1993 report on the nation's Civil War...
The National Park Service awarded $2,051,250 under the Battlefield Land Acquisition Grants program (CFDA 15.928) to the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission on July 7, 2022. The funds will support the American Battlefield Trust's acquisition of a 4.1-acre tract of land at the Gettysburg Battlefield as a military museum site. The American Battlefield Trust will acquire the property as a sub-recipient, and the Adams County Land Conservancy will hold a conservation easement on the land....
The Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation received a $608,269.77 Project Grant award from the Department of the Interior National Park Service National Office. The grant was awarded under the Battlefield Land Acquisition Grants program (CFDA 15.928) to acquire a 0.66 acre parcel known as the Mair Tract at the Great Bridge Battlefield in Chesapeake, Virginia. The Battlefield Land Acquisition Grants program aims to preserve threatened battlefield land from the Revolutionary War,...
The National Park Service awarded a $1,563,300.50 Battlefield Land Acquisition Grant (CFDA 15.928) to the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission (PHMC) to assist in the non-federal acquisition of 0.63 acres of the 8th Ohio Tract at the Gettysburg Battlefield. Through this project grant, the American Battlefield Trust, as a sub-recipient, will acquire and hold title to the property, permanently protecting this historically significant land. The Battlefield Land Acquisition Grants...
This Project Grant award of $7,765,289.62 from the Department of the Interior National Park Service will enable the non-federal acquisition of 144.62 acres of the McCann Tract at the Winchester II Battlefield. Funded through the Battlefield Land Acquisition Grants program (CFDA 15.928), the award will support the permanent protection of lands related to the American Civil War through fee simple acquisition by the Shenandoah Valley Battlefields Foundation. As the sub-recipient, the Foundation...
This federal Project Grant award of $984,194.00 from the Department of the Interior's National Park Service was issued on June 21, 2023 under the Battlefield Land Acquisition Grants (CFDA 15.928) program. The award will assist the Jefferson County Farmland Protection Board, a local government entity, in acquiring a 149.6-acre non-federal less-than-fee easement over the Aspen Pool Tract at the Shepherdstown Battlefield. The objective of this grant program is to permanently protect historic...
This federal Project Grant award, provided by the National Park Service under the American Battlefield Protection Program (CFDA 15.926), provides $713,869.56 in funding to the College of Charleston's Office of Research & Grants Administration to restore and stabilize the powder magazine and cisterns at the Fort Johnson site in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina. The award was granted on December 20, 2024 with a completion date of March 31, 2027. The project aims to identify, evaluate,...