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Local volunteer asks DeLand to back maritime and military museum for tugboat artifacts
Summary
A volunteer asked the commission to endorse a plan to create a Saint John’s Maritime and Military Museum for artifacts from the ST 479 “Tiger” tugboat and requested a supportive city resolution to strengthen fundraising and outreach.
At the Jan. 6 meeting Dan Friend, a local volunteer and organizer, asked the DeLand City Commission to support his effort to establish a Saint John’s Maritime and Military Museum to house artifacts from the ST 479 “Tiger” tugboat and other local collections.
Why it matters: Friend described a local historic artifact (the tugboat) and said a museum would preserve items that otherwise could be dispersed; he asked the city for a supportive resolution to strengthen fundraising outreach and to signal municipal support as his organization pursues potential state or national designations and private funding.
What Friend told the…
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