SNOHOMISH COUNTY — The Snohomish County Historic Preservation Commission last month awarded $100,000 in grant funding to nine heritage preservation projects, including that:
• Sno-Isle Libraries will use funding to digitize Snohomish Tribune newspapers from 1921-1941 in an effort coordinated with the Snohomish Library. The effort has already digitized Tribunes from 1910 to 1920 which are available and searchable to the public online.
• The Monroe Historical Society will complete the digitization of The Monroe Monitor from 1980 to 1999. The Monitor ceased in 2021. The company which owns the Monitor bought its competing paper the Tribune and consolidated newspaper titles.
• The HistoryLink Project will add more Snohomish County historical information to HistoryLink.org, an online resource for state history. This year’s grant focus is Snohomish County people, businesses and places that have shaped the county’s history and creating an online self-guided walking tour.
• The Lake Stevens Historical Society will use funding to digitize its remaining newspaper collections as well as an early school newspaper, and several smaller short-lived local papers. The digitization will preserve some of the more fragile newspapers.
• The Sno-Isle Genealogical Society Project was awarded funding to digitize the Edmonds Tribune from 1908 to 1927.
• The Evergreen State Fair Park will replace the deteriorated roof on the Shannahan Cabin, which is the first building to be placed on the Snohomish County Register of Historic Places.
• Lynnwood was awarded funding to make accessibility accommodations for the Urban Railcar Exhibit at Heritage Park.
• The Stillaguamish Pioneer Museum will hire professionals to clean and store fragile glass negatives that contain photographs of early Arlington settler families.
This year, The Historic Preservation Grant received 13 applications amounting to $178,000 in funding requests.
