This article originally appeared on the William G. Pomeroy Foundation website.
Communities across the United States are invited to commemorate their local and regional transportation history with fully funded historical markers from the William G. Pomeroy Foundation.
The Pomeroy Foundation’s Historic Transportation Marker Grant Program was established to help people bring greater attention to transportation history across subjects ranging from railroads, bridges and tunnels to canals and aviation. Markers obtained through this grant program must recognize a historical fact that occurred no later than 1945.
Markers help communities to preserve history, educate the public, encourage pride of place and promote tourism. Those interested in applying for a marker grant must submit an online Letter of Intent (LOI) to verify primary sources by Friday, Oct. 4. Primary source documentation is necessary to support the proposed marker inscription. Read more...