2024 Preservation Planning Grants Highlights

With the support of an ABPP Preservation Planning Grant, the University of Pennsylvania will conduct a three-phased archeological field survey of Fort Mifflin, with the goal of using the survey data to reassess current site conditions and develop a long-term preservation plan for the Fort.

In 1778 Rhode Island freed enslaved men who enlisted, and Black soldiers became most of the 1st Rhode Island Regiment. A 2024 grant will tell their story at Newport's Wanton-Lyman-Hazard House.