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Ash County approves $4,000 trailer for cemetery committee; GPR finds 83 unmarked graves at one site
Summary
The Board authorized a purchase order up to $4,000 for an enclosed trailer to house ground-penetrating-radar (GPR) equipment used by the county cemetery committee, which reported locating hundreds of unmarked graves across the county and at least 83 in a single site and asked for ongoing support for volunteer-led cemetery preservation.
The Ash County Board of Commissioners voted April 20 to approve a purchase order for an enclosed trailer of up to $4,000 to store and transport ground-penetrating-radar (GPR) equipment used by the county’s cemetery committee.
Why it matters: The committee is using GPR to locate unmarked graves and abandoned cemeteries across the county; volunteers and the committee said the work reveals previously unknown burial sites and supports preservation efforts.
What the committee reported Committee members told commissioners that since resuming spring fieldwork they have run GPR surveys at multiple locations…
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