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Oregon Heritage Featured Grants
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Oregon Heritage offers grants for preservation and heritage projects throughout the state.
For information, application and lists of past grant projects please visit the Heritage Grants page.
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Claypool Cemetery
Cape Blanco Heritage Society recently completed a project to address a significant interpretive challenge at the Life Boat Station Museum.
The Lifeboat Station Museum interprets the history and daily life at the former Coast Guard Site. It is a collection of artifacts, buildings and trails on a 100-acre headland landscape. The landscape has varied topography and is thick with vegetation. Visitors have a difficult time understanding the relationship of the ocean, land, and structures to each other. The museum needed a quick way explain the physical layout to better tell the stories and to show areas of the property that are not publically accessible. The Cape Blanco Heritage Society settled on a scale, tabletop diorama. The model serves multiple people at one time, requires very little maintenance, offers easy 3-D perspective and allows for a quick glance or deeper perusal.
The museum worked closely with a professional model maker. Phase one of the project included research, measuring and design. Volunteers contributed to phase one and it was funded in part be a grant from the Curry County Cultural Coalition. Phase two was funded by an Oregon Museum Grant of Oregon Heritage.
The completed model displays the entire 100-acre area including the Lifeboat Station Museum buildings, Port Orford Head State Park and trails that lead to boathouse pilings, lookout tower anchors, and stunning ocean vistas.
The Curry County Cultural Coalition is one of several County and Tribal organizations tasked with distributing funds from the Oregon Cultural Trust at the local level. The Oregon Cultural Trust is developing an endowment to provide sustainable funding for Oregon culture in perpetuity. To learn more and find your local coalition visit the Oregon Cultural Trust website. www.culturaltrust.org
Former Featured Grant Projects
2009
Claypool/Parrish Cemetery & Community Services Consortium
Friends of Jacksonville's Historic Cemetery
2007
Enterprise Cemetery
The Job Council - Eastman IOOF Cemetery
Juntura Pioneer Cemetery
Looney Cemetery
Myrtle Creek Pioneer Cemetery
Rogue Valley Genealogical Society
2006
Paulina Elementary School - Maury Mountain Cemetery
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