Amonate Inventory Project

Amonate, VA conducted a thorough inventory of historic properties throughout the community with support from Mid-Atlantic TAB and Virginia Tech. The scope of the project included mapping, gathering data on the models of the coal homes, documenting historic pictures, and overlaying it with topography and other municipal data.

The inventory project has been instrumental in helping leverage an oral history grant from the Virginia Tech Center for Oral History for $2,500 to interview long-time residents and those who lived in Amonate in the earliest recorded days. A Vibrant Virginia grant of $10,000 from the Virginia Tech Center for Economic and Community Engagement provided the additional opportunity to work with Amonate on community visioning. 

The inventory and visioning process outlined future design projects that will be funded from a variety of grants in hand at Virginia Tech's Community Design Assistance Center. During the process of this work, an anonymous donor stepped forward to provide funding to Amonate Always, a local non-profit, so that they could purchase the historic Methodist Church, which was built in 1935.

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