PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island will receive $595,644 in historic preservation grants administered by the National Park Service, the U.S. Department of the Interior announced Tuesday.
Money from the Historic Preservation Fund, which is overseen by Congress, will go toward preservation programs at state offices and to “ensure support of local preservation with a required 10 percent pass through to certified local governments via competitive grants.”
Money for the HPF comes from outer continental shelf oil lease revenues.
“The Department of the Interior and the National Park Service are committed to preserving U.S. and tribal history and heritage,” stated U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke. “Through valuable partnerships we are able to assist communities and tribes in ensuring the diverse historic places, culture and traditions that make our country unique are protected for future generations.”
The Department of the Interior also announced $59,082 in HPF grants for the Narragansett Indian Tribe.
The department described a funded project involving the Narragansett Indian Tribe in this year’s annual grants that supported the tribe’s partnership with three other Tribal Historic Preservation Offices, the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah), the Mashantucket (Eastern) Pequot and the Mohegan, to collaborate with federal agencies on federal undertakings where stone landscapes were in danger of impacts. The project resulted in a submission to the National Register of Historic Places called “Indigenous American Ceremonial Stone Landscapes of the Northeast.”
