Join in the spirit of learning about Fayetteville's history at the 3rd Annual Cemetery Spirit Walk in the Historic Fayetteville Cemetery on October 23. Ten "residents" of the cemetery will speak to the guests about their lives. Stories will be heard from the likes of Margaret Mitchell, Capt. Redwine and Doc Holliday.
Spirit Guides will lead groups of 8-10 guests from 6:30 to 8:30 pm. Presale tickets are available at The Depot in downtown Fayetteville. On the night of the event, tickets will be available at the Holliday Dorsey Fife House Museuem and the Fayetteville Cemetery.
Come on out and learn about the history from those who lived it.
Tickets are $5 per person.
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Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Jackson Street Cemetery added to National Register of Historic Places
The Jackson Street Cemetery, located on the University of Georgia campus, has been added to the National Register of Historic Places.
The cemetery, also known as the Old Athens Cemetery, is located between the Visual Arts Building and Baldwin Hall and has approximately 800 graves on around 2½ acres of property. The listing was added Oct. 2.
For the past three years, the cemetery has been part of a preservation project headed by Janine Duncan, a UGA campus planning coordinator in the grounds department.
“Getting this honorary designation reinforces the importance of the site on a broader level,” said Duncan, who started the project as a graduate student.
The cemetery has been cleaned up and repaired. Vegetation has been cleared away, head stones have been repaired and cemetery monuments, including obelisks and vaults have received structural repairs. Duncan has worked with preservation experts, including the Chicora Foundation in South Carolina, on more specialized repairs.
The cemetery was used primarily between 1810 and 1856, and when it was full Oconee Hill Cemetery (located behind Sanford Stadium) opened.
Merchants, tailors, ministers, children of UGA faculty members, families of state government officials and two UGA presidents, Robert Finley and Moses Waddel, are buried in the cemetery. Duncan along with the anthropology faculty and students are working to indentify unmarked graves in the cemetery.
“The recognition is a great gesture in noting the significance of the cemetery,” said Dexter Adams, director of the UGA grounds department. “Our research and investigation into conditions at the cemetery have confirmed that there are many, many more burials there than are represented by the surviving markers and monuments. The National Register listing is at least a noteworthy and honorable means of recognizing those otherwise anonymous individuals.”
Paperwork for the designation was started two years ago.
“Cemeteries are some of the hardest sites to get on the register,” said Duncan, “because you have to prove the historic integrity is still there.”
So Duncan had to show that the majority of the grave markers, monuments and ironwork still exist. She also had to cite exactly why the cemetery is so culturally important.
“Cemeteries are hallowed spaces,” she said. “They are also artistic spaces. The designs in the headstones and monuments speak to the period in which they are created.”
Seven other campus facilities have previously been added to the registry. The Bishop House, the Founders Memorial Garden, the Lucy Cobb Institute, the Lumpkin House, Old North Campus and the President’s House were all added in 1972 and the Athens Factory (now the Interim Medical Partnership Building) was added in 1980.
The register is done through the U.S. Department of the Interior.
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The cemetery, also known as the Old Athens Cemetery, is located between the Visual Arts Building and Baldwin Hall and has approximately 800 graves on around 2½ acres of property. The listing was added Oct. 2.
For the past three years, the cemetery has been part of a preservation project headed by Janine Duncan, a UGA campus planning coordinator in the grounds department.
“Getting this honorary designation reinforces the importance of the site on a broader level,” said Duncan, who started the project as a graduate student.
The cemetery has been cleaned up and repaired. Vegetation has been cleared away, head stones have been repaired and cemetery monuments, including obelisks and vaults have received structural repairs. Duncan has worked with preservation experts, including the Chicora Foundation in South Carolina, on more specialized repairs.
The cemetery was used primarily between 1810 and 1856, and when it was full Oconee Hill Cemetery (located behind Sanford Stadium) opened.
Merchants, tailors, ministers, children of UGA faculty members, families of state government officials and two UGA presidents, Robert Finley and Moses Waddel, are buried in the cemetery. Duncan along with the anthropology faculty and students are working to indentify unmarked graves in the cemetery.
“The recognition is a great gesture in noting the significance of the cemetery,” said Dexter Adams, director of the UGA grounds department. “Our research and investigation into conditions at the cemetery have confirmed that there are many, many more burials there than are represented by the surviving markers and monuments. The National Register listing is at least a noteworthy and honorable means of recognizing those otherwise anonymous individuals.”
Paperwork for the designation was started two years ago.
“Cemeteries are some of the hardest sites to get on the register,” said Duncan, “because you have to prove the historic integrity is still there.”
So Duncan had to show that the majority of the grave markers, monuments and ironwork still exist. She also had to cite exactly why the cemetery is so culturally important.
“Cemeteries are hallowed spaces,” she said. “They are also artistic spaces. The designs in the headstones and monuments speak to the period in which they are created.”
Seven other campus facilities have previously been added to the registry. The Bishop House, the Founders Memorial Garden, the Lucy Cobb Institute, the Lumpkin House, Old North Campus and the President’s House were all added in 1972 and the Athens Factory (now the Interim Medical Partnership Building) was added in 1980.
The register is done through the U.S. Department of the Interior.
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Thursday, April 2, 2009
City of Valdosta Receives Federal Historic Preservation Grant
The City of Valdosta has been awarded a Historic Preservation Fund Grant to produce a Geographic Information Systems (GIS)-enabled web site to be used by family-members, historians, genealogists, and anyone interested in learning about the generations of Valdostans laid to rest at the city-owned Sunset Hill Cemetery. Valdosta is one of the first communities in the state to offer this type of innovative resource, creatively combining technology and City history.
The City is one of ten Georgia cities selected to receive part of over $75,000 in grants from the Historic Preservation Fund, offered by the Historic Preservation Division of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources, for historic preservation projects.
The City was awarded the $3,000 grant for the creation of the GIS-enabled interactive web site, which will eventually be linked from the City of Valdosta’s current web site and will serve the community in at least two valuable ways. First, it will be a valuable archive of historical and genealogical information, available to anyone with Internet access. Second, it will serve as a convenient source of cemetery information regarding hours of operation, cemetery etiquette, available lots, their cost, and other information useful to citizens.
The grant money will be used to design and build the site through a contract with the South Georgia Regional Development Center and will include:
An interactive map of the cemetery that users can point and click to retrieve detailed information about gravesites;
A searchable database of those buried in the cemetery, especially useful to historians, genealogists, and other heritage tourists;
The ability to locate information about available lots and the cemetery’s general rules and regulations; and
A detailed history of the cemetery, featuring historic and current photographs.
Sunset Hill Cemetery was established in 1861, a year after the town of Valdosta was chartered. The GIS-enabled interactive web site is expected to go live in summer 2010, in time for the City’s sesquicentennial celebration.
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The City is one of ten Georgia cities selected to receive part of over $75,000 in grants from the Historic Preservation Fund, offered by the Historic Preservation Division of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources, for historic preservation projects.
The City was awarded the $3,000 grant for the creation of the GIS-enabled interactive web site, which will eventually be linked from the City of Valdosta’s current web site and will serve the community in at least two valuable ways. First, it will be a valuable archive of historical and genealogical information, available to anyone with Internet access. Second, it will serve as a convenient source of cemetery information regarding hours of operation, cemetery etiquette, available lots, their cost, and other information useful to citizens.
The grant money will be used to design and build the site through a contract with the South Georgia Regional Development Center and will include:
An interactive map of the cemetery that users can point and click to retrieve detailed information about gravesites;
A searchable database of those buried in the cemetery, especially useful to historians, genealogists, and other heritage tourists;
The ability to locate information about available lots and the cemetery’s general rules and regulations; and
A detailed history of the cemetery, featuring historic and current photographs.
Sunset Hill Cemetery was established in 1861, a year after the town of Valdosta was chartered. The GIS-enabled interactive web site is expected to go live in summer 2010, in time for the City’s sesquicentennial celebration.
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Monday, June 23, 2008
Fayetteville's Official Historian, John Lynch, on the History of Fayetteville City Cemetery
Lynch is speaking at the Memorial Day ceremonies sponsored by American Legion Post 105 in Fayetteville, Georgia
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