Programs & Projects
2008-2009 Programs and Projects That Support our Mission
- Completion of $1.1 million conservation project for the Andrew Low House, partially funded by a Save America’s Treasures Grant
- Partnered with the GA Trust to provide 2 scholarships to historic preservation graduate students
- Sponsorship of high school essay contests on American history subjects; four Georgia winners are sent to Washington for the Congressional Seminars
- 6th-8th graders participated in a “My Place” project designed to develop patriotism through a creative project
- Participated in naturalization ceremonies, taking pictures of new citizens
- Athens, Columbus, Rome, Thomasville and Waycross town committees involved in cemetery projects
- Care packages sent to our service men and women overseas as well as to GA veterans
- Americus Town Committee partnered with the Andersonville Guild to restore the Drummer Boy Museum
- Moultrie Town Committee produced 2 educational DVD’s — one about Indian George and one about the historic Thigpen Trail