Royall House Receives $100K Grant

Medford’s historic Royall House and Slave Quarters is a 2013 recipient of a Cummings Foundation $100K for 100 grant.

The grant will support in-depth educational field trips at the museum for elementary school students, which will be focused on northern colonial slavery, the economics of the slave trade, and the lives of enslaved Africans in the Massachusetts colony. Educational resources will include the museum’s buildings, household items, artifacts unearthed on site, and a rich collection of relevant primary source documents.

The first year’s allocation will address preservation, accessibility, and sustainability issues in the Slave Quarters meeting room, which will be used as classroom space for the school programs. Three subsequent years’ funding will support program implementation, including educational staff and transportation subsidies to ensure that students from low-income school districts have access to this important American history.

“We are deeply grateful to Cummings Foundation and the Cummings family for their confidence in our organization,” said a statement in the Royall House June newsletter.

– Information and photo from the Royall House