The Prairie Guards have again received generous challenge grants from the Miller/Hammond and HHM Charitable Foundations! Their gifts totaling $50,000 will retire our mortgage and the match we raise will be used as matching funds for additional grants that will allow us to bring water and power into the Park, double the number of trails, build a new access road from Mount Mitchell Road to a new parking area, and build an ADA compliant trail to the ruts and swales of the Topeka Fort Riley Road, once used by freedom-seekers on the Underground Railroad. These improvements will also create the setting for a future Visitor’s Interpretive Center. Gifts to the Mount Mitchell Prairie Guards will be doubled between now and the end of November! This includes funds generated from our participation in the Wamego Match Day and the Emporia Community Foundation Match Day Emporia Community Foundation Match Day on November 15th.
So far, we have received $15,000 toward this match. Please help us reach the finish line and get the land paid off so that we can continue to develop this wonderful community asset.
ADDITIONAL GOOD NEWS!
If all goes well, the Kansas Historic Sites Board of Review will soon approve the Mitchell Farmstead and the Park for listing on the National Register of Historic Places as the Mount Mitchell Heritage Prairie Historic District.
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