Lincoln Heritage Education Grants

Lincoln Heritage Education minigrants are available to public or private schools in the state for field trips for K-12 students to the following Kentucky Lincoln sites:

Abrahan Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Site, Hodgenville
Lincoln Boyhood Home National Historic Site, Knob Creek
Mary Todd Lincoln House, Lexington
Farmington Historic Home, Louisville
Lincoln Museum, Hodgenville
Lincoln Homestead State Park, Springfield
White Hall State Historic Site, Richmond 
Camp Nelson, Jessamine County
Ashland: The Henry Clay Estate, Lexington
Old Fort Harrod State Park, Harrodsburg
Hardin County History Museum, Elizabethtown

The maximum grant amount is $350 and schools may receive no more than one minigrant per granting deadline. See the grant application (link below) for more information and application deadlines.

Project grants for Lincoln-related projects in the classroom are also available through this program. Any project that promotes Abraham Lincoln or is related to Abraham Lincoln (i.e. slavery, emancipation, or the Civil war) is eligible. Connections may be made with other disciplines, such as arts and humanities, mathematics, etc., but the primary focus of the project must be social studies. Use of primary sources, such as oral histories, historic buildings/sites, photographs, maps, newspapers, journals/diaries, etc. is encouraged.

The maximum grant amount is $500 and schools may receive no more than one project grant per granting deadline and no more than two project grants per calendar year. See the grant application (link below) for more information and application deadlines.

Lincoln Heritage Education Grant