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Davidson County survey documents hundreds of historic burial sites and urgent preservation needs
Summary
Presenters from New South and Metro Historical Commission summarized Phase 3 of a countywide cemetery survey, reporting roughly 98 sites surveyed in the phase, five newly recorded cemeteries added to the Davidson County Cemetery Survey, and preservation challenges ranging from abandonment to harmful landscaping practices.
Lydia, a presenter on the New South survey team, said the Phase 3 Davidson County Cemetery Survey aimed to ‘‘document our current conditions of the cemeteries throughout Davidson County’’ and to collect geospatial data and size estimates to inform a countywide preservation plan.
The project team visited 98 cemeteries in the most recent subareas of western Davidson County and added five previously unrecorded sites to the Davidson County Cemetery Survey (DCCS) database, the presenters said. Surveyors also reported about 13 sites they could not access and the earliest burial they documented in the field dated to 1816.
‘‘We are connecting with property owners, community members, and stakeholders who might be interested in preserving these cemeteries,’’ Lydia said. The team uses two forms for each site: an in-house New South…
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