William G. Pomeroy Foundation Opens New Grant Round of Historic Roadside Marker Program
This article originally appeared in a William G. Pomeroy Foundation website.
One of the William G. Pomeroy Foundation's core initiatives is to help people celegrate their community's history. The Foundation strongly believes that historic markers play an important role in local historic preservation by serving a dual purpose. They educate the public and foster historic tourism, which in turn can provide much needed economic benefits to the towns and villages where the markers are placed. The program also fills a gap. As New York State stopped funding their roadside markers in 1939.
Our New York State Historic Marker Grant Program commemorates historic people, places, things, or events within the time grame of 1740-1921. Since 2006, the Foundation has funded more than 700 markers in 58 New York State Counties. Read more...