Join us at Greenwood Cemetery in Tuscaloosa, AL on Wednesday June 12th, 2024!
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Greenwood Cemetery
900 T.Y. Rogers Junior Ave. Tuscaloosa, AL 35401
6/12/2024 9am-3pm
Find A Grave
Tuscaloosa Thread Article
48StateTour Facebook Event
Location Details
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Parking & Facilities
First African Baptist Church, across the street, has given us permission to use their restroom facilities and two parking lots on that day.
About Greenwood Cemetery
“Greenwood Cemetery is Tuscaloosa’s oldest surviving cemetery and is a historical landmark. It was established in 1820 and named “Tuskaloosa Burial Ground”. Later, it was renamed Greenwood Cemetery. The earliest known marked grave-site is that of four-year-old Mary Ellen Meek and is dated 1821.
Greenwood Cemetery is the final resting place for many people who made our community what it is today including many soldiers and patriots who fought for our independence, as well as brave men and women who settled the town of Tuscaloosa. In addition, since Tuscaloosa was the capital of Alabama in the early 1800s, Greenwood Cemetery is the final resting place of some of Alabama’s earliest politicians. Ground-penetrating radar has indicated there are multiple unmarked graves in the cemetery.”
*info above and images below are provided by our local event co-host Becky Davenport, Chief Tuskaloosa Chapter, DAR*
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”Davenport and her group of volunteers regularly come out to Greenwood, at least once a month, to do regular cleaning. Thursday, though, nearly 30 volunteers showed up to learn from Johnathan Appell, a professional gravestone preservationist, how to properly restore damaged graves.
Afterward, Davenport oversaw the volunteers as they split up to practice what they learned.
Davenport said Appell travels across the country teaching regular lessons and held Tuscaloosa's first cemetery cleanup workshop last September. She said volunteers there loved the experience and were thrilled to have him back.”
*info above is provided by the Tuscaloosa Thread article after a past 48StateTour event!*
