Hoffman Foundation gives grants

The Augustus L. and Jennie D. Hoffman Foundation has announced this years recipients of its Special Projects Awards. These awards are granted to not-for-profit organizations as funding for projects aimed at the preservation of local history.

This year the following organizations received grants from the Hoffman Foundation:

• The Palmyra Kings Daughters Library received funding to underwrite the cost of framing a 1926 photo of Garlock Employees;
• The East Palmyra Fire Department received funding to assist with the cost of copies and video taping its Early East Palmyra History Program;
• The Wallington Cobblestone Schoolhouse also received a grant.
• The Butler Town Historian received a grant to purchase an historical marker to commemorate the ordination of Antoinette Brown Blackwell, the first woman to be ordained a minister in the U.S. She was ordained in 1853 in South Butler.
• The Wayne County Historical Society and the Arcadia Historical Society for the purchase of dehumidifiers;
• The Macedon Public Library received a grant for the reproduction of the 1870 Sarah Carpenter Diary;
• The Walworth Seely Public Library for the purchase of items for an Adventure Box on the Erie Canal
• The Galen Historical Society for a display case.
• The Macedon Historian to underwrite the cost of a monument among those in the Charles Johnson Farm Burying Ground, whose stones are missing. Among those resting in this historic burying ground are David and Anna Wilcox (Winston Churchill's great-great-grandparents and Hannah Harwood, wife of Webb Howard, first settler in Macedon.

The Hoffman Foundation accepts applications each October for its Special Projects Grants and makes the awards in November. Founded in 1951, the Hoffman Foundation is committed to the support and encouragement of a wide variety of historical and civic oriented projects with this annual effort.

For more information on the Augustus L. and Jennie D. Hoffman Foundation Special Grants Program, you may contact the Wayne County Historian, Deborah Ferrell at 946-5470.

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