Complete Engineering Feasibility Study on Bermuda BridgeThis project will provide funds to complete anengineering feasibility study and treatment recommendations for the historic Bermuda Bridge in Bermuda, Louisiana. Funding: $25,000 Partner: Cane River Waterway Commission, Cane River National Heritage Area, Natchitoches Parish Create Interpretive Media at Los Adaes Historic SiteAn interpretive plan for the site with preliminary graphic designs and cost estimates is needed to propel Los Adaes into the 21st century. The plan will form the groundwork for all future interpretive media and also give the heritage area a phased approach in which signs, panels, waysides, and exhibits can be created in a cohesive manner. Funding: $10,500 Partner: Cane River National Heritage Area Stabilization Plan for Fort Jesup State Historical SocietyThis project will provide funds for a stabilization plan to repair the historic kitchen and cultural landscape at Fort Jesup State Historical Site. Funding: $24,750 Partner: Cane River National Heritage Area River Road African American Museum Exhibit - PlanningThis project would create a professionally curated, designed, and installed “Rural Roots of Jazz” permanent exhibit in the front room of the River Road African American Museum (12 x 12 square ft.), LA. Highlights of this exhibit would include an oral history interview viewing section, historical instruments, photographs, and sheet music that are currently in the River Road African American Museum’s (RRAM) collection, and a map of the rural area in Ascension Parish in relationship to New Orleans. Funding: $5,200 Partner: River Road African American Museum River Road African American Museum Exhibit - Fabrication & InstallationThis project would create a professionally curated, designed, and installed “Rural Roots of Jazz” permanent exhibit in the front room of the River Road African American Museum (12 x 12 square ft.), LA. Highlights of this exhibit would include an oral history interview viewing section, historical instruments, photographs, and sheet music that are currently in the River Road African American Museum’s (RRAM) collection, and a map of the rural area in Ascension Parish in relationship to New Orleans. Funding: $15,600 Partner: River Road African American Museum River Road African American Museum Exhibit - Research & WritingThis project would create a professionally curated, designed, and installed “Rural Roots of Jazz” permanent exhibit in the front room of the River Road African American Museum (12 x 12 square ft.), LA. Highlights of this exhibit would include an oral history interview viewing section, historical instruments, photographs, and sheet music that are currently in the River Road African American Museum’s (RRAM) collection, and a map of the rural area in Ascension Parish in relationship to New Orleans. Funding: $5,200 Partner: River Road African American Museum Corinth Contraband Camp Augmented Reality ApplicationThis project will create a meaningful experience for the public through an augmented reality application designed specifically for the Corinth Contraband Camp. Using eight bronze life-size statues and plaques located at the site, visitors will be guided through life at the camp from November 1862 - January 1864. Funding: $10,000 Partner: Northeast Mississippi Community College and Corinth Area Convention and Visitors Bureau Creating and Installing Historic Marker at Lynching Victim Grave (Thomas Moss)Funding is requested for a historic marker to be placed in the cemetery where Thomas Moss is buried. The marker will bring attention to his lynching and that of two others (Calvin McDowell and William Henry Stewart) in March of 1892 in north Memphis. Funding: $3,000 Partner: Unknown Remembering Lynching Victims of Shelby CountyTwo markers will be placed near the locations of Shelby County lynchings. One is for an enslaved man (name unknown) who was lynched in 1851 in downtown Memphis. The other is for Wash Henley who was lynched in 1869 near Bartlett, TN. Funding: $5,300 Partner: Lynching Sites Project |
Last updated: February 4, 2022