Dartmouth Cemetery Conservation Group

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Photo by Bruce Atwood.

Join us for a Dartmouth Cemetery headstone preservation and cleaning event this 2024 summer and fall. Come have some fun outside while cleaning headstones and preserving history!

Dartmouth Cemetery Conservation Group will be meeting in the cemetery on the following dates to clean and preserve headstones. If you have questions or are interested, please contact Petra Sergent (petra.sergent@dartmouth.edu).

Dates:

Saturday June 15, 1-4p                           Saturday August 3, 8a-12p

Saturday June 29, 8a-12p                       Saturday August 17, 8a-12p

Saturday July 6, 8a-12p                          Saturday August 31, 8a-12p

Saturday July 20, 8a-12p                        Saturday Sept.14, 8a-12p

Please wear old clothes. Everything else needed will be provided. The cemetery is located behind Class of '53 Commons and Fairbanks near the green. Please meet at the main cemetery entrance (where the red x is on the map).  

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Check out:

• The first in the Dartmouth Research on Death & Dying series: Inequities for Pre-Civil War Black New Englanders, which took place on Wednesday, May 10, 2023
• This Dartmouth article on the current efforts of the Dartmouth Cemetery Conservation Group.
• This student-created podcast capturing stories from the cemetery!

Also, see what the Rauner Special Collections Library has been digitizing relative to the cemetery.