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11 <br /> enslaved. These are often unmarked or poorly marked and known only to neighboring <br /> landowners, genealogists or elderly descendants of those buried in these sacred places. <br /> The HPC will seek funding for a project to identify, research, and protect these burial <br /> grounds, using a variety of tools including surveying/marking boundaries, fencing, and <br /> permanent interpretive markers. <br /> • Establish a small grant program to help preserve endangered rural historic resources: <br /> The HPC seeks funding to establish a small-scale grant program to assist owners with <br /> essential preservation work. Numerous endangered rural historic cemeteries and structures, <br /> such as old schoolhouses and outbuildings, merit preservation or protection or they will soon <br /> be lost. The HPC will pursue grant funding to help start this program, with some level of <br /> County funding, to address the following resources: <br /> • Abandoned Black burial grounds <br /> • Historic Black schoolhouses <br /> • Historic farm buildings <br /> County historic marker program: The HPC plans to move forward to explore the feasibility <br /> and costs of a county-wide historic and cultural marker program, modeled on similar <br /> programs in other areas that utilize both physical markers and/or map-driven web sites <br /> and/or phone apps. A marker program is a way to provide accurate historical content in an <br /> accessible/interactive format about cultural resources, places and people of significance to <br /> our local communities, especially the underrepresented. This should be developed in <br /> collaboration with our partners in local government. (No fiscal impact at this time) <br /> - 4 - <br />