Historic Preservation

The Cemetery Assessment Report for Franklin, Tennessee, incorporates both Old City Cemetery and Rest Haven Cemetery. I worked on Old City Cemetery with Katie Rosta Bailey and Sara Rieger. Brigitte Eubank and Kristen O'Hare, both working on Rest Haven Cemetery, completed our group. Sara Rieger was the team captain. We also received advice and research help from Catherine Hawkins and Caneta Hankins. Old City Cemetery has an interesting place in the history of Franklin, especially in African-American history. It's also interesting for its fine examples of mourning architecture and for some of its residents, who make up some of Franklin's most prominent families.

See photographs and captions I created for the Old City Cemetery.

See the full report.

You can also see a press release written by the Center for Historic Preservation.

While taking this course, several of us decided to participate in a cemetery preservation workshop being held jointly by the Center for Historic Preservation at MTSU and by the Rutherford County Historical Society.

Example of a broken gravestone

Working on reattaching the cleaned gravestone to the base

Cleaned stone

Me cleaning the gravestones

Another example of a broken gravestone we later fixed

Katie Rosta Bailey and I with a gravestone we helped to restore

The whole group with our largest restored gravestone. It was in three pieces when we started.

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