Quarry Farm Foundation receives $50K grant for restoration efforts

Kendall LeValley
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ELMIRA, N.Y. (WETM) – The Quarry Farm Foundation has announced its receipt of a $50,000 grant to help with the restoration of old systems at Quarry Farm.

The grant comes from the Community Foundation of Elmira-Corning and the Finger Lakes and will be used to fund the installation of a new fire suppression system.

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According to Katherine Roehlke, Vice President of the Quarry Farm Foundation and chair of local fundraising efforts, most of the systems at Quarry Farms are over 150 years old and in urgent need of restoration. This grant is coming just in time for the work to be completed.

“Many individuals and foundations have already given generously to the work in progress, but this Community Foundation grant arrives just as we commence our local fundraising in earnest,” said Roehlke.

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Quarry Farm is known as the former summer home for Mark Twain and his family, where he wrote many works of literature, including “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,” ” A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court,” “Life on the Mississippi” and more.

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