Series: 2024 Preservation Planning Grants Highlights

The American Battlefield Protection Program awards Preservation Planning Grants to preservation partners across the country to research, plan, protect and interpret these important stories. Check out these past award recipients to learn more. Have questions or interested in applying? Email [e-mail] for more information.

• Article 1: War in the Coalfields: The “Ludlow Massacre” and its Impact on the Eight-hour workday

  

  With the support of an ABPP Preservation Planning Grant, the non-profit United Mine Workers of America will develop a master plan for the Ludlow Tent Colony “Massacre” site, with the goal of using it to guide their future preservation and interpretation efforts at the site. Read more

• Article 2: A Cold and Bloody Morning: Expanding on the Archeological Survey of the River Raisin Battlefield.

  

  With the support of an ABPP Preservation Planning Grant, the University of Michigan will conduct a second series of archeological field surveys to determine what subsurface remains of the War of 1812 battlefield still exist on property owned by the City of Monroe, and complete an analysis of “orphaned” archeological collections in the Monroe County Museum. Read more

• Article 3: Soldiers with No Weapons: Remembering the Convention Army and Examining what Life was like for British Prisoners-of-War at Camp Security

  

  With the support of an ABPP Preservation Planning Grant, the non-profit Friends of Camp Security will conduct an archaeological field survey of Camp Security, a prisoner-of-war camp from the American Revolutionary War, with the goal of using the data recovered to update their long-term preservation plan for the site. Read more

• Article 4: A Vortex of Artillery, Mud, and Rain: Working to Preserve Fort Mifflin and its Defender’s 2-Month Duel with the Royal Navy

  

  With the support of an ABPP Preservation Planning Grant, the University of Pennsylvania will conduct a three-phased archeological field survey of Fort Mifflin, with the goal of using the survey data to reassess current site conditions and develop a long-term preservation plan for the Fort. Read more

• Article 5: Life, Liberty, and the Moral Dilemma of Slavery: Uncovering the History of Rhode Island’s Black Soldiers during the American Revolution

  

  With the support of an ABPP Preservation Planning Grant, the Newport Historical Society will develop an interpretation plan for the historic Wanton-Lyman-Hazard House, with the goal of adapting the building into a history center for telling the stories of Black Americans in Rhode Island during the American Revolutionary War. Read more

• Article 6: The Unexpected Start to Metacom’s War: Investigating the Archeological Remains of Swansea at “Nockum Hill”

  

  With the support of an ABPP Preservation Planning Grant, the Town of Barrington will use data from a previous grant funded project to guide the second phase of an archeological site survey of the colonial Swansea settlement at “Nockum Hill,” with the goal of determining the role of the English Meeting House during the opening fight of Metacom’s (King Philip’s) War. Read more