An SCA Historic Preservation Team gained hands-on cemetery restoration skills at Yorktown National Cemetery, tackling projects addressing a range of preservation needs, including cleaning and resetting headstones and footstones.
One stone at a time, the crew transformed rows of sunken, misaligned, or root-disrupted markers into orderly, dignified lines that honor the memory of those who are interred there. Read more about their work on the National Park Service website.
The SCA crew leveled, aligned, and reset 617 grave markers at Yorktown National Cemetery. The sections and rows of burials, as well as the lodge shown here in the back left, reflect the cemetery’s original design in the years after the Civil War. (Photo Credit: National Park Service)
The SCA crew leveled, aligned, and reset 617 grave markers near the front section of the cemetary, exceeding their initial goal of 500 headstones. The project was funded by a grant from the National Park Foundation.
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