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National Maritime Heritage Grants: 1998 Recipients
In the 1998 grant cycle, 39 grants totaling $652,616 were awarded under the inaugural round of the Maritime Heritage Grants Program. The projects funded included maritime education and information access projects; exhibit and heritage trail development; preservation of ships, lighthouses, and other maritime properties; and survey and conservation of underwater archeological resources. The projects that received funding are listed by state below.
California | Connecticut | District of Columbia | Florida | Georgia | Iowa
| Kentucky
Louisiana | Maine | Maryland | Massachusetts | Michigan | New York
North Carolina | Ohio | Pennsylvania | Rhode Island | Texas | Virginia | Washington
California
Curatorial Project—U.S.S. Hornet Museum
- Recipient: U.S.S. Hornet Museum
- Amount: $11,250
The Historic Ship Balclutha: Quarter Deck Preservation Project
- Recipient: National Maritime Museum Association
- Amount: $15,000
Point Sur Lighthouse's Lantern Room and Upper Gallery Preservation
- Recipient: Central Coast Lightkeepers Association (CCLK)
- Amount: $25,000
Rehabilitation of Pilot, a Diego Harbor Pilot Boat 1914-1996
- Recipient: Maritime Museum Association of San Diego
- Amount: $14,000
Connecticut
Connecticut Customs Districts Records 1789-1939: A Preservation and Access Project
- Recipient: Mystic Seaport Museum, Inc.
- Amount: $24,400
District of Columbia
Naval Historical Foundation Reconciliation Project: A Proposal to Gain Public Access to Historic Nautical Documents, Photographs, and Artifacts
- Recipient: Naval Historical Foundation
- Amount: $25,000
Florida
Commercial Fishing through the Centuries: Florida's Maritime Heritage
- Recipient: Cortez Village Historical Society
- Amount: $5,000
Georgia
Relocation of the C.S.S. Jackson and C.S.S. Chattahoochee
- Recipient: Woodruff Museum of Civil War Naval History
- Amount: $12,500
Iowa
Boatbuilding on the Mississippi: An Interactive Exhibit
- Recipient: Mississippi River Museum
- Amount: $25,500
Kentucky
Preservation of the Mayor Andrew Broaddus, the Last Remaining U.S. Coast Guard Inland Lifesaving Station
- Recipient: Belle of Louisville Operating Board
- Amount: $43,000
Louisiana
Travelling Exhibit of Ten Distinct Pirogue Types From South Louisiana
- Recipient: Center for Traditional Loiusiana Boat Building
- Amount: $9,000
Maine
Preservation of Historic Hancock Warehouse and Marshall Store
- Recipient: Old York Historical Society
- Amount: $4,100
Preservation of the Portland Observatory
- Recipient: City of Portland
- Amount: $25,000
Watercraft Education Project: One Hundred Years of Boating on Maine's Lakes, Shores, and Rivers
- Recipient: Penobscot Marine Museum
- Amount: $49,816
Maryland
Constellation Restoration Effort
- Recipient: Constellation Foundation, Inc.
Research, Plan, and Design an Exhibition Master Plan for a Waterfront Maritime Center
- Recipient: Maryland Historical Society
- Amount: $10,000
Massachusetts
"All Hands On Deck" Educator Outreach Project
- Recipient: U.S.S. Constitution Museum
- Amount: $25,000
Deck Replacement aboard U.S.S. Massachusetts
- Recipient: U.S.S. Massachusetts Memorial Committee, Inc.
- Amount: $21,500
Outfit Rehabilitation of the Diesel-Electric Tug Luna
- Recipient: Luna Preservation Society, Inc.
- Amount: $12,500
Preserving the Engineering Plant of the Coast Guard Motor Lifeboat 36500
- Recipient: Orleans Historical Society, Inc.
- Amount: $10,000
Michigan
The Age of Great Lakes Schooners: Life along the Manitou Passage
- Recipient: Inland Seas Education Association
- Amount: $4,000
New York
Diving Historical Sites in New York Brochure
- Recipient: New York State Divers Association
- Amount: $3,100
Documentation Report on the Erie Canal "Flight of Five" Locks
- Recipient: Niagara County Department of Planning, Development, and Tourism
- Amount: $2,500
The Hudson Waterfront Museum Maritime Education Program
- Recipient: The Hudson Waterfront Museum
- Amount: $7,000
Interpretive Seawall Panels
- Recipient: The Conservancy for Historic Battery Park
- Amount: $11,350
Steam Launch Osprey Restoration
- Recipient: Adirondack Museum
- Amount: $10,000
Storm Warriors, the Story of the U.S. Life Saving Service
- Recipient: Local Television, Inc. (LTV)
- Amount: $20,750
World Port, New York: An Electronic Curriculum
- Recipient: South Street Seaport Museum
- Amount: $7,500
North Carolina
Maritime Heritage Public Education Programming on North Carolina Piracy
- Recipient: Friends of the North Carolina Maritime Museum
- Amount: $25,000
Preservation of the Roanoke River Lighthouse
- Recipient: Edenton Historical Commission
- Amount: $15,000
Restoration of 1874 Chicamacomico Life Saving Life Station
- Recipient: Chicamacomico Historical Association
- Amount: $10,000
Ohio
Vessels of the Great Lakes: Image Database Project
- Recipient: Historical Collections of the Great Lakes, Bowling Green State University
- Amount: $24,850
Pennsylvania
Protective Measures for the Cruiser Olympia: Waterproofing, Moorings/Access, Electrical Upgrades, Asbestos Abatement
- Recipient: Independence Seaport Museum
- Amount: $14,000
Rhode Island
Rhode Island Marine Archaeology Project—1999 Field Work
- Recipient: Rhode Island Marine Archaeology Project (RIMAP)
- Amount: $26,000
Texas
The LaSalle Shipwreck Conservation Project
- Recipient: Conservation Research Laboratory, Nautical Archaeology Program
- Amount: $10,000
Virginia
Expanding Access to the Eldridge Collection: Steam Navigation in America
- Recipient: The Mariners' Museum
- Amount: $15,000
Preservation of Historic 1895 Cape Charles Lighthouse Keepers Quarters
- Recipient: The Nature Conservancy's Virginia Coast Reserve
- Amount: $25,000
Washington
Steamer Virginia V Restoration Project: Restoration of the Main Superstructure
- Recipient: Steamer Virginia V Foundation
- Amount: $15,000
West End Shipwreck Education Project
- Recipient: Clallum County Historical Society
- Amount: $4,000