Minnesota Historical Society Awards Grants

The Minnesota Historical Society has awarded $295,192 in Minnesota Historical and Cultural Heritage Small Grants to 34 recipients in 20 counties, according to a press release. The quarterly grants of up to $10,000 were awarded on February 19 and will help nonprofit and educational/tribal organizations preserve and share the history of Minnesota.

In our area, the grants were awarded to:

• Steele County Historical Society, 1700 Austin Road, Owatonna. The grant of $7,455 will help provide better organization of the School House catalog collection to allow greater access to the historic resources.
• Dodge County Historical Society, 615 N. Main, Mantorville received $13,676. The first grant for $7,176, will be used to hire a lighting professional for better lighting. The second grant for $6,500 will be used to hire an architect to construct documents of the Wasioja Civil War Recruiting Station, which is on the list of National Register of Historic Places.
• Waseca County Historical Society, 315 Second Ave. N.E., Waseca. Their grant of $9,387 will to used to purchase a digital microfilm reader/printer/scanner and that will make records that are microfilmed accessible to the public.

The Minnesota Historical and Cultural Heritage Grants are made possible by the Legacy Amendment's Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund voted on by Minnesotans in November 2008 to support efforts preserving Minnesota land, water, history and cultural heritage.