FAYETTEVILLE -- The Fayetteville Evergreen Cemetery Association received a $35,100 grant from the Department of Arkansas Heritage to restore sections of a 1915 stone retaining wall, according to a news release Thursday.
Evergreen Cemetery was Fayetteville's first public cemetery and is the resting place of Archibald Yell, the state's first member of the U.S. House of Representatives and its second governor, and of U.S. Sen. J. William Fulbright.
The grant is one of three totaling $114,528 from the Arkansas Historic Preservation Program for projects in the state through the Historic Preservation Restoration Grant program.
The other two grants were $29,428 for roof restoration at the 1912 Claredon Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and $50,000 for masonry and slate roof restoration a the 1888 First Lutheran Church in Little Rock, according to the news release.
"These grants are in addition to $874,795 in Historic Preservation Restoration Grants, which distribute funds raised through the Real Estate Transfer Tax to rehabilitate buildings listed on the Arkansas or National Registers of Historic Places and owned by local governments or not-for-profit organizations, that were awarded earlier this year," the release states.
NW News on 08/03/2018