April 17, 2010
Project expected to be complete by spring 2012
MuskogeePhoenix.com
By Liz McMahan
Phoenix Staff Writer
FORT GIBSON — Nearly $1 million in improvements to the Fort Gibson Historic Site should be complete by the spring of 2012, said Dr. Bob Blackburn, executive director of the Oklahoma Historical Society.
Blackburn made the announcement standing beneath the deteriorating canopy that stands in the center of the re-created historic fort of the 1800s.
OHS has been able to parlay a $200,000 appropriation into $1 million with the help of a number of state officials, Blackburn said. The state money was matched with a grant from the National Park Service’s Save America’s Treasures program. It was supplemented with $645,000 obtained through the Oklahoma Department of Transportation and the U.S. Department of Transportation... FULL ARTICLE
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