Grants available to preserve tobacco barns

 

(chathamstartribune.com) Preservation Virginia and JTI Leaf Services of Danville will fund the Tobacco Barns Mini-Grants Project for a second year.
Applicants can obtain more information and application forms at the question and answer sessions to be held in Caswell, Halifax and Pittsylvania counties this month.
... For the 2015 grant cycle, in order to be eligible to receive a mini-grant, the barn must be a tobacco curing or pack barn, it must be located within the three-county region and it must be in need of repairs, but also in good enough condition that the repairs can be done in a quality manner within the cap per barn. Continued