Home News Blackstone River Valley Presents 24 Preserve America Community Applications to the ACHP

Feb. 10, 2004, Washington, DC—The Preserve America Community designations program received a welcome boost today when a delegation from the Blackstone River Valley in Massachusetts and Rhode Island presented 24 community applications in a group to the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation.

Taking part in the event at the ACHP's Washington, DC, office were, from left:
Michael Creasey, National Park Service, Executive Director, John H. Chafee Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor; John Fowler, Executive Director, ACHP; Robert Billington, Chairman-President, Blackstone Valley Tourism Council; Louise Redding, Chair, Blackstone Valley Institute Sub-Committee; Michael Cassidy, Treasurer, City of Pawtucket, Director of Planning and Redevelopment; Donna Williams, Secretary and Chair, American Heritage Rivers Sub-Committee.

For more information on Preserve America, including the Community designation program, visit www.PreserveAmerica.gov.

An independent Federal agency, the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP) promotes historic preservation nationally by providing a forum for influencing Federal activities, programs, and policies that impact historic properties, advising the President and Congress, advocating preservation policy, improving Federal preservation programs, protecting historic properties, and educating stakeholders and the public. For more information, visit the ACHP's Web site at www.achp.gov, or contact Bruce Milhans at 202-606-8513 or bmilhans@achp.gov.

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Updated February 13, 2004

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