Series: 2022 Preservation Planning Grants Highlights

The American Battlefield Protection Program awards Preservation Planning Grants to preservation partners across the country to research, plan, protect and interpret these important stories. Check out these past award recipients to learn more. Have questions or interested in applying? Email [e-mail] for more information.

• Article 1: Amplifying Narratives – 2022 Preservation Planning Grant Year in Review

  

  ABPP is proud to support preservation projects that work to strengthen Indigenous connections at sites of armed conflict over the past year. We also recognize the continuous room to improve Program outreach efforts. Many 2022 grants support projects amplify Indigenous history. But only two percent of the total applicants came from Tribal governments. As we look towards 2023, NPS ABPP strives to expand Tribal participation. Read more

• Article 2: Illinois – Experiencing the Struggle for Survival at Camp Douglas

  

  The NPS's American Battlefield Protection Program awarded a 2022 Preservation Planning Grant to Camp Douglass Restoration Foundation in Illinois. They plan to design and produce traveling exhibits that explain Camp Douglas’s role as a Union training center and prisoner of war camp during the Civil War. Read more

• Article 3: Massachusetts – 1676 Battle of Wissatinnewag-Peskeompskut (Great Falls): Building on Community Commitments to Remember, Honor, and Protect

  

  The NPS's American Battlefield Protection Program awarded a 2022 Preservation Planning Grant to Town of Montague in Massachusetts. They plan to conduct a third phase of archeological investigations of the Wissantinnewag-Peskeompskut/Great Falls site. Read more

• Article 4: Maryland – Expanding the “Crossroads of War” Website

  

  The NPS's American Battlefield Protection Program awarded a 2022 Preservation Planning Grant to Heart of the Civil War Heritage Area in Maryland. They plan to expand their website with new web content that will promote better understanding of the Civil War’s impact on civilians and focus attention on the lives of central Maryland’s enslaved communities during the war. Read more

• Article 5: Michigan – Remembering the Raisin: Protecting River Raisin Battlefield Through Research and Collaboration

  

  The NPS's American Battlefield Protection Program awarded a 2022 Preservation Planning Grant to the University of Michigan. They plan to lead two archeological field schools to investigate portions of the War of 1812 battlefield owned by the City of Monroe, Michigan. Read more

• Article 6: Crow Agency (Montana) – It is a Good Day to (Re)Live Little Big Man: 50 Years of Changing Perspectives on Indian Wars in the American West

  

  The NPS's American Battlefield Protection Program awarded a 2022 Preservation Planning Grant to Little Big Horn College in Crow Agency (Montana). They plan to host a multi-day symposium that investigates the myths and realities of the battlefields explored in the Little Big Man, including battles at Little Big Horn (1878) and Rosebud (1876) and the Washita River Massacre (1868). Read more

• Article 7: New Jersey – Divided Loyalties: The American Revolution in Southern New Jersey

  

  The NPS's American Battlefield Protection Program awarded a 2022 Preservation Planning Grant to the County of Ocean, New Jersey. They plan to establish a driving trail exploring the history of the American Revolutionary War in southeast New Jersey at seven sites of armed conflict. Read more

• Article 8: New Mexico – Piedra Marcadas: Conquest and Resilience of a Rio Grande Pueblo

  

  The NPS's American Battlefield Protection Program awarded a 2022 Preservation Planning Grant to the University of New Mexico. They plan to engage museum visitors with digital plans of the Puebloan people’s architecture, three-dimensional models of cultural objects unearthed during archeological research at Piedras Marcadas battlefield, and an interactive exhibit. Read more

• Article 9: New York – Saving Spitfire: Shedding Light on the Battle of Valcour Bay from the Depths of Lake Champlain

  

  The NPS's American Battlefield Protection Program awarded a 2022 Preservation Planning Grant to Lake Champlain Maritime Museum in New York. They Plan to develop a research design for future underwater investigation of the US gunboat Spitfire. Read more

• Article 10: New York – Battle of Fort Bull: Research, Indigenous Voices, and Community Stewardship

  

  The NPS's American Battlefield Protection Program awarded a 2022 Preservation Planning Grant to State University of New York, Binghamton. They plan to conduct limited archeological excavation of a site identified as the potential location of Fort Bull through a survey supported by another NPS ABPP grant in 2018. Read more

• Article 11: Pennsylvania – Recovering the History of Fort Halifax

  

  The NPS's American Battlefield Protection Program awarded a 2022 Preservation Planning Grant to Juniata College in Pennsylvania. They plan to conduct a geophysical survey of the remains of Fort Halifax to document its exact perimeter. Read more

• Article 12: Pennsylvania – “Braddock’s Defeat”: Pittsburgh’s Past & Public Memory

  

  The NPS's American Battlefield Protection Program awarded a 2022 Preservation Planning Grant to Braddock's Battlefield History Center in Pennsylvania. They plan to develop an interpretive plan for the Monongahela battlefield. Read more

• Article 13: Virginia’s Civil War Battlefields: Stories from Living Landscapes

  

  The NPS's American Battlefield Protection Program awarded a 2022 Preservation Planning Grant to the American Battlefield Trust. They plan to develop a strategy for documenting the material culture of Native tribes Black Americans at Virginia’s Civil War battlefields. Read more

• Article 14: Virginia – Mapping the Dragon: Towards an Indigenous History of Bacon’s Rebellion

  

  The NPS's American Battlefield Protection Program awarded a 2022 Preservation Planning Grant to St. Mary’s College of Maryland for a project in Virginia. They plan to reexamine Bacon’s Rebellion from an indigenous point of view. The project team will gather oral history, geographic, and archeological data from the Rappahannock and Pamunkey Tribes of Virginia to map the indigenous defensive strategies employed in Dragon Swamp. Read more

• Article 15: Virginia – The View from Signal Hill: New Perspectives on the Battle of New Market Heights

  

  Eight United States Colored Troops, standing in two rows, gaze intently at the camera. These uniformed soldiers are standing erect, with rifle barrels in their hands at their chests. Read more