LANSING, MI— Six Upper Peninsula history projects are getting funding from the state.
The Michigan History Center and Historical Society of Michigan have announced Round 2 funds from the America250MI History Grant Program. The money will be used to help bring the stories of Michigan’s past to life as part of the state’s commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
Awardees are as follows:
Negaunee Historical Society
Negaunee Historical Society Digitation Project 2026
$4,993.17
Munising School Public Library
Voices from Vietnam: Alger County Veteran Oral Histories
$4,700
Grand Marais Historical Society
Honoring the Ancestors Who Saved Grand Marais
$9,064
Painesdale Mine and Shaft Inc
Hexagonal Water Tank Building
$13,000
Michilimackinac Historical Society
Straits Area Cultural Center
$50,000
Northern Michigan University/ Beaumier UP Heritage Center
Barnes-Hecker Disaster 100th Commemoration
$50,000
