WJON — St. Cloud State University is trying to dig up the past with one of two recent grants from the Minnesota Historical Society.
St. Cloud State received two Cultural Heritage small grants. The first grant is for $6,543 and is going toward hiring a museum consultant to do a general preservation needs assessment survey and long-range collections preservation plan.
The second grant is larger and for a more in-depth project. SCSU’s Department of Anthropology was awarded $10,000 to go toward finding material remains of a US military post that was built in Sauk Centre in 1862, during the US-Dakota War.
Rob Mann is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at SCSU. He says the grant will be mostly used to buy equipment to help find any materials that would be part of the military post.
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