Granite Falls Historical Society

HERITAGE COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT - Our second largest expense is typically our involvement in the county's heritage community, particularly in providing online resources useful for research and/or historic tourism. Online hosting expenses continued throughout 2023, including those for online maps, rural historic cyber-tours, and countywide online museum tours. Some of these expenses are reimbursable by a historic fund and are shown as grants. Timing of reimbursements cause yearly variations. In 2023, we updated and expanded the county-wide online museums tour (and were reimbursed $1,404) We digitized historic County newspapers (and were reimbursed $19,500). We provided historical orientation presentations for several antique automobile touring clubs. We also provided technical instruction to several county genealogical societies who were struggling to improve their organizational technology skills, specifically aimed at helping them in the use of new digital scanning equipment.

EDUCATION: We maintain a strong online presence, coupled with a broadly-distributed newsletter. Since we are an all-volunteer organization, our office and IT expenses are focused on continual educational awareness of, and access to, our collection. School class visits were reestablished in 2022, hosting classes for those grades who had to forego a museum tour during the COVID shutdown. A total of 47 class presentation were provided to 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade students. A number of printed pictures and documents were provided to local and online researchers, printing fees shown as revenue.

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