At a national news conference on April 7, 2022, the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s Telling the Full History Preservation Fund announced its award of $25,000 to the Warren Preservation Society for the creation of a feasibility study to establish Sowams as a National Heritage Area. The grant is one of 80 given to select organizations nationwide with projects that helped preserve, interpret, and activate historic places to tell the stories of underrepresented groups in our nation. “The Telling the Full History Preservation Fund represents the largest number of grants given through a single program at the National Trust,” said Katherine Malone-France, Chief Preservation Officer. The Sowams Heritage Area Project has formed a 15-member Steering Committee that will oversee the creation of a feasibility study that will be submitted to the National Park Service in 2023 for their review.