Congressionally directed spending - historic preservation fund grants-in-aid awarded through congressionally directed spending assist in the identification, evaluation, and protection of historic…

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 documentation, physical preservation, and other eligible activities under the program. The project period runs from the award date of December 1, 2024 through the ultimate completion date of September 30, 2028.

Congressionally directed spending - historic preservation fund grants-in-aid awarded through congressionally directed spending assist in the identification, evaluation, and protection of historic properties by such means as education, survey, planning, technical assistance, preservation, documentation, and financial incentives like grants and tax credits available for historic properties. The grants support a broad range of preservation projects for historic properties including architectural services, historic structure reports, preservation plans, and physical preservation to sites in keeping with the secretary of the interiors standards and guidelines for archeology and historic preservation. Beneficiaries include states, tribes, local governments and nonprofits as designated by congress. This project is awarded to nonprofit, tomaquag indian memorial museum, for collections conservation and storage.