Tryon Palace Foundation Inc

Promotion of special historic, educational, and cultural events at tryon palace.the foundation was gifted property in downtown new bern to be used as a community park and educational site. This site allows for tryon palace reenactment groups to interpret history in a very visible location, extending reach to downtown visitors. In 2024, the foundation received a grant for archaeological surveyance to clermont, a tryon palace property planned for future development as an educational historic site including nature trails and programs that focus on archaeology, the indigenous peoples who once lived there, civil war history and information on richard dobbs spaight (revolution). The foundation continues to provide support for special programming and for our reenactment interpretive groups.

The foundation promotes and advocates for educational programming for adults and children.the palace scholars program helps to offset costs for field trips to tryon palace for title i schools. In 2024, more than $47,000 was awarded to 56 title i schools enabling approximately 4,000 students to take a field trip to tryon palace. Funded with a grant received from the anonymous trust, the palace scholars outreach program brings costumed interpreters into the classroom of title i schools who are unable to travel to tryon palace. The interpreters deliver lessons that focus on tryon palace's colonial history, as well as 18th century fiber arts and military life. In 2024, the costumed interpreters travelled to 18 schools and delivered living history lessons and hands-on demonstrations to nearly 1,700 students.in january and february 2024, the foundation worked in partnership with the craven community college lifetime learning center to bring 3 programs to tryon palace that focused on new bern history with speakers from nc dncr archives, tryon palace staff and a well-known eastern north carolina historian.

Promotion of free concerts and other programs that provide additional opportunities to expose the public to the historical and cultural mission of tryon palace.