Pomeroy Historic Marker Grants
This article originally appeared on the William G. Pomeroy Foundation website.
One of the William G. Pomeroy Foundation’s core initiatives is to help people celebrate 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 frame of 1740-1920. Since 2006, the Foundation has funded more than 600 markers in 53 New York State counties.