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SIA Industrial Heritage Preservation Grants Program - Grants Awarded
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SIA Industrial Heritage Preservation Grants Program - Grants Awarded
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The SIA Grants Committee has announced in 2004 the award of the Society's first two Industrial Heritage Preservation Grants. A grant of $1,375 has been awarded to the Montague Association for the Restoration of Community History (MARCH) and $1,377 has been awarded to the Schoharie River Center.
MARCH will use the funding to conduct research and prepare a National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) Registration Form to expand the existing Millville Historic & Archaeological District in Montague Township, Sussex County, NJ. The district is listed in the NRHP and is in the New Jersey State Register as well. Millville is a small 19th-century industrial hamlet containing several buildings, structures, and sites. The proposed expansion is to include resources associated with the district such as the mill's water-power systems and the farmsteads of former mill owners. MARCH is a local non-profit historical society. Professional support will be provided Dennis Bertland Assoc. and Richard Veit [SIA], winner of the SIA's 2003 Vogel Prize. The Schoharie River Center proposes to use the SIA grant to conduct an archeological and educational outreach program focusing on the industrial heritage of the village of Burtonville, Montgomery County, NY. The investigation features several l9th-century mill sites on the Schoharie Creek. Students from local schools will participate fully in recording archeological data and arriving at conclusions about water-power management and the historical landscape of the village in its industrial prime. Public dissemination of the results will take the form of school and library presentations, articles, and papers. This is the second year that students between the ages of eight and thirteen will be able to participate. Professional archeological support will be provided by Hartgen Archaeological Assoc. The Schoharie River Center is a non-profit organization. |
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In the fall of 2004, at the recommendation of the Grant’s Committee, the SIA board approved a grant of $1,067.50 to the Mid-Continent Railway Historical Society, Inc. At this winter’s board meeting, in February 2005, the board approved grants of $2,500.00 to the Heritage Conservation Network/Francis Mill Preservation Society and $3,000.00 to the Western Reserve Historical Society. All awardees have demonstrated the ability to obtain matching funds for their proposed activities. The Mid-Continent Railway Historical Society, Inc. requested the funding to conduct photographic documentation of the Great Northern Business Car A-22, built in 1905 in the railroad’s St. Paul shops for Louis Hill. As indicated in the application, the documentation will become part of the historical society’s archival record and will be used in the formulation of restoration and interpretation plans for the car. The Francis Mill Preservation Society (FPMS) is working with the Heritage Conservation Network (a non-profit group that runs hand-on workshops) to restore a c. 1887 water powered grist mill in Waynesville, NC, through a series of workshops. The mill was in danger of collapse when in 2003 emergency stabilization of the structure took place. The workshops not only facilitate the restoration of the mill but also teach volunteers about historic construction techniques. FPMS plans to restore the mill, which contains its original equipment, to working order and then provide access to the students and the general public for educational purposes. As described in their proposal, the Western Reserve Historical Society will use the grant to help match a challenge grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, to catalog and preserve the records of the LTV Steel Corporation and its predecessors. The records span a 150-year history that ended in 2002 with the closing of the company. Once the material is processed it will be distributed to repositories appropriate for the collection’s “geographic scope” which included steel mills, mines and shipping facilities throughout much of the mid-west and portions of the Atlantic coast. The collection consists of 3,800 cubic feet of documents, audio and video tapes and photographs. Upon completion, which is anticipated to be in 2006, a catalog of the collection will be posted on the Internet for worldwide access. |