Tourism Cares, the non-profit organization dedicated to preserving the travel experience for future generations, awarded $45,000 in grants to six non-profit organizations as part of its Worldwide Grant Program for spring 2009, including Dayton’s Newcom Tavern. With matching funds from all recipients, a total of $90,000 will be presented to the organizations for projects containing a mix of sustainable tourism, cultural and heritage interpretation, preservation and restoration projects.
Tourism Cares distributes Worldwide Grants three times a year to worthy non-profit organizations worldwide. Among these organizations is Dayton History for the Newcom Tavern Conservation Project. Dayton History is the parent organization of Carillon Historical Park. The park is a unique historical museum complex of 24 buildings, situated in a beautiful 65-acre site in the heart of Dayton. Among the buildings stands the one of the region’s oldest and most popular tourist attractions, the Newcom Tavern. Built in 1796, it was an amazingly early historic preservation project.
This important heritage tourism site receives 143,000 visitors annually, 72 percent of which are groups. The Tourism Cares Worldwide Grant funding will support this unusual preservation education project to conserve the tavern using period tools and techniques. Congratulations!
Comments