Vancouver, Wash. – The Clark County Council has approved the Historic Preservation Commission’s recommendation to fund eight projects for the 2020 Historical Promotions Grant program. The grants total $50,000.

The grant recipients are:

• Venersborg School, electrical upgrade, $14,000
• Columbia Dance, Nutcracker Production with Fort Vancouver Themes, $9,100
• North Clark Historic Museum, photo and postcard storage, $1,339
• North Clark Historic Museum, TV/DVD player, $961
• Clark County Historic Museum, Two Rivers Heritage Museum, Washington State University Vancouver Library, exhibit of women’s organizations and suffrage in Clark County, $8,500
• Columbia Springs, guided walks interpretation for Biddle Family Homestead, $4,300
• Traveling Day Society, instruments and public address system, $5,800
• Downtown Camas Association and Georgia Pacific, Georgia Pacific Mill photo collage, $6,000

The council also awarded an additional $8,000 for a Historic Preservation Commission preservation project for an interpretive panel installation in downtown Camas.

The Historical Promotion Grants program is designed to increase awareness and education to better preserve, exhibit, and/or interpret local history and historic preservation.

Applicants must be either a non-profit organization or public entity within the boundaries of Clark County that promotes our local history. Applicants also must either operate or own a museum or similar historical institution or perform educative, interpretive, or similar activities.

Clark County’s Historic Preservation Commission reviews the applications and makes recommendations to the county council.

For more information on the Historical Promotional Grant program, go to www.clark.wa.gov/community-planning/historical-promotion-grants-program. 

CONTACT
Jacqui Kamp
Community Planning
564.397.4913
jacqui.kamp@clark.wa.gov