CRPT Cemetery Resource Protection Training

Learn to care for historic cemeteries in Florida!

Join us for our Cemetery Resource Protection Training workshop! We will explore cemeteries as historical resources while learning about laws that protect them, conserving headstones and markers, managing cemetery landscapes, and practicing hands-on headstone cleaning. By the end of the course, you will be well-versed in issues surrounding the protection of historic cemeteries and ready to record historic cemeteries to the Florida Master Site File!

• $10 Suggested Donation
• Attendance will max at 25 participants. Waiting list available

The classroom session includes a series of short discussions on:

~Cemeteries as cultural resources

~Managing historic cemeteries

~Laws that protect marked and unmarked burials

~Recording historic cemeteries for the Florida Master Site File

The in-field training includes:

~A short tour of the Historic Evergreen Cemetery, est. c.1856

~Active documentation of headstones & cemetery landscapes

~Hands-on headstone cleaning!

Schedule:

10:00 - Registration and welcome

10:15 am- Classroom program begins

12:00pm-1:00pm- break for lunch on your own

1:00-2:00- Meet at Evergreen Cemetery (Address: 401 SE 21st Ave, Gainesville, FL 32641)

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Headquarters Library | Alachua County Library District, 401 East University Avenue, Gainesville, United States

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