Texas Rural African-American Heritage Program

The Texas Rural African-American Heritage Grants Program provides matching grants of up to $75,000 to support the rehabilitation of historic rural African-American institutional and commercial buildings in towns with populations of under 50,000. This program has been made possible by a $750,000 Paul Bruhn Historic Revitalization Grant from the National Park Service. Each of these sites will soon be added to the National Register of Historic Places and will benefit from important investments in the coming years to ensure that they survive.

Additionally, Preservation Texas is undertaking hands-on preservation work at the Hopewell Freedom Colony at our Center for Rural Heritage in Falls County, and serving as the fiscal sponsor for the Dr. James Lee Dickey House reconstruction project in Taylor.