JEFFERSON CO., Pa. (EYT) – The Jefferson County Historical Society, the Punxsutawney Weather Discovery Center, and the Punxsutawney Area Historical & Genealogical Society are among the organizations that will benefit from Cultural and Historical Support Grants announced on Wednesday.
The Jefferson County Historical Society and the Punxsutawney Weather Discovery Center will each be receiving $4,000 in Cultural and Historical Support Grants from the Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission (PHMC), while the Punxsutawney Area Historical & Genealogical Society will be receiving a $4,000 Historical and Archival Records Care (HARC) Grant.
The Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission (PHMC) awarded almost $2 million in Cultural and Historical Support Grants to 154 eligible museums and official county historical societies from 56 Pennsylvania counties. In addition, PHMC awarded more than $175,000 in Historical and Archival Records Care (HARC) Grants to 34 organizations in 24 Pennsylvania counties.
The goal of the Cultural and Historical Support Grant program is to strengthen Pennsylvania’s museum community by supporting the general operations of eligible museums and official county historical societies that are not supported by other state agency funding programs. An eligible museum must have an annual operating budget exceeding $100,000 (excluding capital and in-kind services) and at least one full-time professional staff person (or approved equivalent).
Award amounts are determined using an equation based on a percentage of the eligible museum’s previous year’s operating budget. The maximum any museum could receive is $40,000. All official county historical societies receive a $4,000 minimum grant.
HARC Grants fund projects designed to improve the preservation and accessibility of historically significant records maintained by local governments, historical societies and academic institutions.
HARC grants are administered by the Pennsylvania State Archives, a bureau within PHMC. Funding for the awards spans two years. The maximum award one institution could receive is $5,000. Collaborative grants were eligible for $5,000 per institution for a maximum of $15,000.
The grants were based on a competitive review of the applications by a subcommittee of the Pennsylvania State Historical Records Advisory Board (SHRAB).
SHRAB operates under federal regulations governing the National Historical Publications & Records Commission and serves as the central advisory body for historical records planning in the state
The following is a list of Cultural and Historical Support Grant awards by county:
Adams
Adams County Historical Society – $4,000
Gettysburg Foundation – $14,919
Seminary Ridge Historic Preservation Foundation – $7,282
Allegheny
Braddock’s Battlefield History Center – $4,000
Carnegie Museum of Natural History – $40,000
Carnegie Science Center – $40,000
Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh – $40,000
Frick Art & Historical Center – $40,000
Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania – $40,000
Holocaust Center of the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh – $8,825
Rivers of Steel–Steel Industry Heritage Corporation – $31,153
Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Hall & Museum Trust Inc. – $17,341
Armstrong
Armstrong County Historical Museum & Genealogical Society – $4,000
Beaver
Beaver County Historical Research and Landmarks Foundation – $4,000
Bedford
Bedford County Historical Society – $4,000
Old Bedford Village – $4,267
Berks
Boyertown Museum of Historic Vehicles – $8,442
Colebrookdale Railroad Preservation Trust – $17,158
Foundation for the Reading Public Museum – $32,056
Hawk Mountain Sanctuary Association – $28,136
Historical Society of Berks County – $7,882
Blair
Blair County Historical Society – $4,000
Railroaders Memorial Museum – $5,840
Bradford
Bradford County Historical Society – $4,000
Bucks
Bucks County Children’s Museum – $4,000
Bucks County Historical Society – $32,228
Pearl S. Buck International – $9,411
Trustees of the Mercer Fonthill Museum – $10,195
Butler
Butler County Historical Society – $4,000
Historic Harmony Inc. – $4,000
Cambria
Cambria County Historical Society – $4,000
Johnstown Area Heritage Association – $17,974
Centre
Centre County Historical Society – $4,000
Discovery Space of Central Pennsylvania – $10,777
Chester
American Helicopter Museum and Education Center – $4,000
Chester County History Center – $19,599
Graystone Society Inc. – $6,721
Historic Sugartown Inc. – $4,000
Historic Yellow Springs Inc. – $11,311
Wharton Esherick Museum – $5,199
Clearfield
Clearfield County Historical Society – $4,000
Clinton
Clinton County Historical Society – $4,000
Columbia
Children’s Museum Inc. – $4,000
Crawford
Crawford County Historical Society – $4,000
Cumberland
Cumberland County Historical Society – $9,435
Dauphin
AACA Museum Inc. – $16,882
Hershey Story, The Museum on Chocolate Avenue – $16,454
Hershey-Derry Township Historical Society – $4,000
Historical Society of Dauphin County – $4,000
The National Civil War Museum – $16,443
Whitaker Center for Science and the Arts – $35,645
Delaware
Delaware County Historical Society – $4,000
Nicholas Newlin Foundation – $9,150
Elk
Elk County Historical Society – $4,000
Erie
Erie County Historical Society – $12,003
ExpERIEnce Children’s Museum – $6,067
Fayette
Fayette County Historical Society – $4,000
Western Pennsylvania Conservancy–Fallingwater – $40,000
Franklin
Conococheague Institute for the Study of Cultural Heritage – $4,000
Franklin County Historical Society – $4,000
Renfrew Committee Inc. – $4,000
Fulton
Fulton County Historical Society – $4,000
Greene
Greene County Historical Society – $4,000
Huntingdon
Huntingdon County Historical Society – $4,000
Isett Acres Museum Foundation – $4,000
Indiana
Historical and Genealogical Society of Indiana County – $4,000
Jefferson
Jefferson County Historical Society Inc. – $4,000
Punxsutawney Weather Discovery Center – $4,000
Juniata
Juniata County Historical Society – $4,000
Lackawanna
Everhart Museum of Natural History, Science, and Art – $10,073
Lackawanna Historical Society – $4,000
Lancaster
Children’s Museum of Lancaster – $5,876
Lancaster Science Factory – $10,179
LancasterHistory: LCHS and Wheatland – $21,046
National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors – $17,318
North Museum – $15,184
Rock Ford Foundation – $4,000
Lawrence
Lawrence County Historical Society – $4,000
Lebanon
Historic Schaefferstown Inc. – $4,000
Lehigh
Da Vinci Discovery Center – $37,297
Lehigh County Historical Society – $7,119
Luzerne
Luzerne County Historical Society – $4,000
Lycoming
Little League Baseball Inc. – $4,000
Lycoming County Historical Society – $4,000
McKean
Eldred World War II Museum Inc. – $4,000
McKean County Historical Society – $4,000
Mifflin
Mifflin County Historical Society – $4,000
Monroe
Monroe County Historical Association – $4,000
Quiet Valley Living Historical Farm – $4,590
Montgomery
Historical Society of Montgomery County – $4,000
Mennonite Historians of Eastern Pennsylvania – $4,497
National Audubon Society, John James Audubon Center – $10,652
Schwenkfelder Library and Heritage Center – $9,077
Northampton
Delaware & Lehigh National Heritage Corridor – $7,008
Historic Bethlehem Partnership – $22,462
Moravian Historical Society – $4,000
National Museum of Industrial History – $12,051
Northampton County Historical and Genealogical Society – $7,768
Northumberland
Northumberland Historical Society – $4,000
Philadelphia
Academy of Natural Sciences at Drexel University – $40,000
American Philosophical Society – $40,000
American Swedish Historical Museum – $7,665
Arch Street Meeting House Preservation Trust – $6,657
Carpenters’ Company of the City and County of Philadelphia – $7,292
Chestnut Hill Conservancy – $5,565
Christ Church Preservation Trust – $7,670
Cliveden of the National Trust – $4,500
College of Physicians of Philadelphia – $40,000
Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site Inc. – $40,000
Ebenezer Maxwell Mansion – $4,000
Fort Mifflin on the Delaware – $4,000
Franklin Institute – $40,000
Friends of Laurel Hill and West Laurel Hill Cemeteries – $6,400
Germantown Historical Society – $4,250
Girard College Foundation – $5,178
Glen Foerd Conservation Corporation – $4,893
Historic Fair Hill – $4,000
Historic Philadelphia Inc. – $40,000
Historical Society of Pennsylvania – $27,644
Independence Seaport Museum – $40,000
Japan America Society of Greater Philadelphia – $11,691
John Bartram Association – $31,781
Museum of the American Revolution – $40,000
National Constitution Center – $40,000
National Liberty Museum – $25,736
National Museum of American Jewish History – $40,000
Philadelphia Fire Department Historical Corporation – $4,000
Philadelphia Society for the Preservation of Landmarks – $12,000
Please Touch Museum – $40,000
The Rosenbach – $16,143
Science History Institute – $40,000
Stenton – $4,714
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania – $40,000
Wagner Free Institute of Science – $10,935
Woodlands Trust for Historic Preservation – $4,000
Wyck Association – $4,000
Pike
Pike County Historical Society – $4,000
Somerset
Historical and Genealogical Society of Somerset County – $4,000
Sullivan
Sullivan County Historical Society’s Museum – $4,000
Susquehanna
Susquehanna County Historical Society – $4,000
Tioga
Tioga County Historical Society – $4,000
Union
Lewisburg Children’s Museum – $4,000
Warren
Warren County Historical Society – $4,000
Washington
Bradford House Historical Foundation – $4,000
Pennsylvania Trolley Museum – $6,869
Washington County Historical Society – $4,000
Wayne
Wayne County Historical Society – $4,000
Westmoreland
Fort Ligonier Association – $11,787
Ligonier Valley Historical Society – $4,000
Westmoreland County Historical Society – $4,000
Westmoreland–Fayette Historical Society (West Overton) – $4,000
Wyoming
Wyoming County Historical Society – $4,000
York
Susquehanna Heritage Inc. – $4,000
York County History Center – $20,742
The following is a list of Historical and Archival Records Care Grant awards by county:
Allegheny
Archives & Special Collections–University of Pittsburgh – $5,000
Historical Society of Mount Lebanon – $5,000
Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation – $2,825
Armstrong
Armstrong County Historical Museum & Genealogical Society – $3,525
Berks
Boyertown Museum of Historic Vehicles – $2,000
Blair
Roaring Spring Community Library – $1,050
Bucks
Bucks County Recorder of Deeds – $5,000
Cambria
Pennsylvania Highlands Community College – $4,854
Centre
Centre County Historical Society – $5,000
Chester
Chester County History Center – $4,987
Historic Sugartown Inc. – $5,000
Clearfield
Houtzdale Borough – $4,450
Clinton
Greater Renovo Area Heritage Park – $5,000
Cumberland
The Arc of Pennsylvania – $5,000
West Shore Historical Society – $4,999
Delaware
Media Borough – $10,000
Erie
Harborcreek Historical Society – $5,000
Jefferson
Punxsutawney Area Historical & Genealogical Society – $5,000
Lackawanna
Grand Army of the Republic Memorial Association – $2,000
Lancaster
LancasterHistory – $5,000
Lawrence
Lawrence County Historical Society – $9,950
Monroe
Monroe County Commissioners – $5,000
Montgomery
Organ Historical Society & Philadelphia Chapter of the American Guild of Artists – $10,000
Philadelphia
Ars Nova Workshop on behalf of Philadelphia Jazz Legacy Project – $5,000
Athenaeum of Philadelphia – $9,855
Christ Church Preservation Trust – $4,865
Drexel University Lenfest Center for Cultural Partnerships – $4,997
Somerset
Springs Historical Society of the Casselman Valley – $5,000
Washington
Peters Township Public Library – $3,450
Jefferson College Historical Society – $1,628
Wayne
Greene-Dreher Historical Society Inc. – $5,000
York
York County Archives – $4,845
Dallastown Area Historical Society Inc. – $10,000
York County History Center – $5,000
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