10/07/2026
The Chateaugay Historical Society has been awarded a grant from the P.K. Curtin Chateaugay Fund. The press release follows...
CHATEAUGAY HISTORICAL SOCIETY RECEIVES GRANT
The Chateaugay Historical Society is the recipient of a $7,000 grant from the PK Curtin Fund, an endowment created under the auspices of the Adirondack Community Foundation. The grant will assist the Society in the er****on of historical markers and celebrations regarding the country’s 250-year anniversary.
The Adirondack Community Foundation promotes charitable activities in Northern New York. Upon PK Curtin’s untimely death friends established a memorial fund with the Foundation to further not for profit endeavors in his beloved town.
To date, the fund has contributed more than $60,000 to support projects such as the library, the planting of trees, the creation of pickle ball courts, the revitalization of the theater and others.
Monies donated to the Pk Curtin Chateaugay Fund are managed by the Adirondack Community Foundation which professionally invests the money, provides accounting services and oversees all grants. The Foundation provides a secure and reliable method to enhance charitable giving in the area.
For more information or to contribute to the PK Curtin Chateaugay Fund, please contact the Adirondack Community Foundation at generousact.org or Jim Bessette at [email protected].
This generous gift will be used to purchase historic markers which will complete the local Historical Society’s “Heritage Trail”, a network of notable historic sites within the Town and Village of Chateaugay.
“We are pleased and gratified to accept this generous donation. The PK Curtin Chateaugay Fund has done so much for the community over the years. We greatly appreciate being recognized in this way. This fund is certainly deserving of continued community support.”, said a spokesman for the Chateaugay Historical Society.
The grant funds will be used to purchase four historic markers to place along Chateaugay’s Heritage Trail. The four are: the Starch Mill on the Earlville Road, Chateaugay Pulp Co. on the Pulp Mill Road, the Globe Grist Mill in Douglass Hollow, and the Covered “Red” Bridge also in Douglass Hollow.
The P.K. Curtin Chateaugay Fund is one of the many dedicated memorial funds administered within the framework of the Adirondack Community Foundation’s network of philanthropic funding.
