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Nearly 130 years of preservation and study of Kennebec Historical Society Receives $25,000 Thompson Foundation Grant!!! AUGUSTA, Maine – The Kennebec Historical Society has received a $25,000 grant from the Charles T. & Marion M. Thompson Foundation Unrestricted Fund to help fund its expansion plan. The Society will use the grant to defer the costs of the planning and engineering of an addition to the historic Henry Weld Fuller Jr. House, the society’s headquarters, located at 107 Winthrop St. in Augusta. The grant, from a fund administered by the Greater Kansas City Community Foundation, was recommended by the descendants of Henry Weld Fuller, who once owned the land where the society’s building at 107 Winthrop St. stands, and whose son commissioned the construction of the house there in the 1830s. The money is intended to be a match to a contribution from another descendant of Henry Weld Fuller and a longtime supporter of the Society. “I'm very pleased and excited with the opportunity this matching grant will provide our organization,” said Patsy Crockett, President of the Kennebec Historical Society. She added, “We are bursting at the seams, truly in need of additional space for our archive material.” E.S. Coffin Engineering and Surveying has provided the Society with a proposal for engineering services for the proposed addition. The grant money will pay for generating floor plans, mechanical plans and elevation drawings of the proposed addition. Questions about the project should be directed to Scott Wood, KHS administrative director, at 622-7718. Kennebec Historical Society ...presented by Mark Alan Leslie What's new at KHS:
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107 Winthrop Street READING ROOM
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