[From InsideNPS article]

On the heels of a meeting of the American Latino Scholars Expert Panel and in honor of National Hispanic Heritage Month, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and National Park Service Director Jonathan B. Jarvis announced $500,000 in matching grants to help fund 13 projects across the country to increase the number of listings in the National Register of Historic Places (National Register) associated with Latinos and other underrepresented communities including African Americans, Asian Americans and LGBT Americans.

Key projects include:

• California: Preserve 20th-Century Latino History — $30,079 to enable the State Historic Preservation Office to nominate seven to 20 Latino properties to the National Register.
• Idaho: Complete Nomination of the Rapid River Fishery in Partnership with the Nez Pierce Tribe — $25,090
• Kentucky: Historic Context and Nomination of LGBT Heritage — $25,000 to nominate the Whiskey Row Historic District and the Henry Clay hotel in Louisville
• Massachusetts: Chinese Immigrants and Chinese Americans in Boston — $25,000 to develop a National Register Historic Context statement for the city’s Chinese community in late 19th and early 20th centuries.
• Maryland: Multiple Property Nominations of African American Civil Rights Resources in Baltimore — $60,000.
• Montana: Identifying African American Heritage Places — $27,788
• New Mexico: Tribal and Pueblo Nations Preservation Summit — $59,620 to develop a customized computer program for inventorying and mapping Pueblo villages.
• New York: LGBT Sites in New York City — $49,999 to survey and document historic and cultural sites associated with LGBT heritage.
• Rhode Island: African American Heritage from College Hill — $25,000 to amend the nomination for the College Hill Historic District to reflect the role of African Americans in its history.
• South Dakota: Architectural Surveys of Shannon County — $26,000 to research potential Native American sites of historical significance.
• Utah: Asian and Pacific Islander Survey and Nomination of Historical Resources — $42,050 for completion of nomination of Iosepa Polynesian Archeological District and archaeological survey of railroad sites associated with Chinese labor.
• Virginia: Virginia Indians National Register Project — $70,000 to increase representation of historic properties associated with Native American tribes since European contact.
• Washington: Inventory Latino Properties in Yakima Valley and Seattle — $34,374.