In 2016, VHCB committed funding for the conservation and preservation of Birchdale Camp, the last remaining building at the Turner Homestead, known as Journey’s End, that was settled in 1873 by Alexander Turner, a former slave, and turned into a successful hill farm. The Camp is now an important site on the African American Heritage Trail, an initiative of Vermont Partnership for Fairness & Diversity in collaboration with the Vermont Department of Tourism and Marketing and selected local historical societies and museums.