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Grants
MDAH Announces New Round of Grants for Historic Buildings
From the MDAH website: $2.1 Million Available in Preservation Grants – posted July 01, 2014 A popular grant program for preservation projects has received additional funding. The 2014 Mississippi legislature allocated $2.1 million for competitive grants in the tenth round of… Read More ›
MDAH Awards Community Heritage Preservation Grants
According to the MDAH website: At a special meeting on December 6 the Board of Trustees of the Mississippi Department of Archives and History awarded grants totaling $2,980,194 to twenty-six preservation and restoration projects from across the state. The Community… Read More ›
MissPres News Roundup 9-23-2013
Here’s a whirlwind view of Mississippi’s preservation news of the last few weeks with thanks to MissPreser Theodore for sending a number of stories my way. On the Coast, the eighth anniversary of Katrina was commemorated with a memorial service… Read More ›
MDAH’s Popular Grant Program Now Open!
According to the Mississippi Department of Archives and History’s website, the popular Community Heritage Preservation Grant (CHPG) program has been funded this year, after skipping a year in 2012. Three million dollars is available for brick-and-mortar renovation projects around the… Read More ›
MissPres News Roundup 5-13-2013
While much of the news around the state this past week was centered around the municipal elections most communities held this week, but we managed to find a good number of preservation stories this week as well. We’ll start off… Read More ›
Preservation Grants Awarded by MDAH
We’ll have our regular News Roundup on Monday, but this was a story that we wanted to single out to share with the MissPres world. Thanks to our friends at MDAH for allowing us to share this release – and… Read More ›
2013 National Trust Planning Grants Available for Main Street Communities
Good planning before a bricks and mortar preservation project will save time and money and usually result in a better quality project. The grants below are for this planning phase. If your town is a Main Street community you might be interested… Read More ›
MissPres News Roundup 3-18-2013
If the calendar full of events didn’t tip me off that Spring was just around the corner, the delightful layer of yellow on my car assures it. Before everyone gets out to enjoy the weather and visit our favorite historic… Read More ›
2013 Grants for Rosenwald Schools
The National Trust has announced a new round of grants up to $20,000 for Rosenwald Schools. Applications are due April 15, 2013.
MissPres News Roundup 3-4-2013
February flew by – and now that it’s March, we’ll expect to start seeing news about Spring Pilgrimages and other festivals in historic downtowns popping up around the state. I didn’t see any of these stories this week, but here’s… Read More ›
Bay St. Louis Theater Receives Award
You may have heard that the Bay St. Louis Little Theater is one of the recipients of a 2013 Governor’s Arts Awards. The award is in the category of “Arts In Community.” You might remember back during 2010, Malvaney reported… Read More ›
MissPres News Roundup 1-28-2013
Can you believe that it’s the last week of January already? Pretty soon, we’ll be talking about Spring Pilgrimages around the state. We’ve had a ton of news since our last round up – so away we go. We’re going… Read More ›
MissPres News Roundup 1-14-2013
News is still a bit slow in the new year – but we still uncovered enough for our second round up of the year. Starting this week down in Natchez where The Democrat covered the latest push for an oil… Read More ›
MissPres News Roundup 1-7-2013
Not a lot of news since our last round-up of 2012 – well not a lot of preservation news anyway. Here are a couple of stories I did come across to start your new year. Up in Tupelo, we had… Read More ›
MissPres News Roundup 10-8-2012
Next week is a contest week on Miss Pres – and the only advice I can give is to make sure you’ve brushed up on your Words of the Week. But since we’ll be skipping the round up next week,… Read More ›
MissPres News Roundup 7-30-2012
Greetings MissPresers! We’re about to be on the “downhill” side of Summer – so I think it’s safe to start planning some Autumn outings to see some of our favorite Mississippi Places. As we start to hear about events, we’ll… Read More ›
Recent MDAH Grant Awards
Saw two press releases on the MDAH website worth separating out from the usual Roundup (especially since these two stories make up the bulk of the news since the last roundup). The first was one titled “MDAH Awards Grants at… Read More ›
MissPres News Roundup 5-21-2012
Time keeps flying – it’s hard to believe it’s already this late in May. There’s still some Preservation Month activities before June is upon us – check on the calendar for dates and times. And here’s the news: We are… Read More ›
MissPres News Round-up 4-2-2012
No fooling – it’s April already. Don’t forget the Statewide Conference at the end of the month. And now, the news. I’m going to start this week with bad news out of Smithville. The story from this community is “that… Read More ›
MissPres News Roundup 1-30-2012
After last week, I thought I might have to change my name and hide for a while with all the bad news to report, but found this week to be better, so I decided it was safe to do the… Read More ›
MissPres News Roundup 12-12-2011
This may surprise everyone, but today’s Roundup is the final one for 2011 because of the end of year posts we have planned the next two weeks. A lot of the news I saw this week were local press releases… Read More ›
MissPres News Roundup 10-31-2011
Happy Halloween! I think the Great Pumpkin brought us treats early, but unfortunately there is one “trick” in the round up this week. First, news out of Natchez where Stanton Hall has had structural engineers examining the building to locate… Read More ›
MissPres News Roundup 10-10-2011
For the second week in a row, we have a lot of news to share from around the state – so I’m going to get right into it: First, a story we’ve been following out of Columbus for a couple… Read More ›
MissPres News Roundup 9-13-2011
The nicer temps last week made me yearn for Fall – and I hope the weather is nice for all of us to plan trips to Fall Pilgrimages that are on the calendar and/or to see places likely to end… Read More ›
MissPres News Roundup 8-30-2011
A lot of the news this past week focused on the East Coast and Hurricane Irene – which made me (and probably a lot of you as well) remember that the Katrina anniversary was yesterday; hence no post in memory… Read More ›
MDAH Announces New Round of CHP Grants!
After some uncertainty about whether there would be a round of the popular Community Heritage Preservation Grant this year, MDAH has announced on their website that there is a small pool of money available on a competitive basis. The Community… Read More ›
Preservation in Mississippi 