Professional Practice
Rhode Island Historic Cemeteries Awareness and Preservation Weeks
Date: 4/1/2022 - 5/31/2022
Location(s): Rhode Island
Description:
The Rhode Island Historic Preservation and Heritage Commission (RIHPHC) is partnering with the RI Historical Cemeteries Commission in promoting RI Historical Cemeteries Awareness and Preservation Weeks. Between April 1 and May 31, 2022, events will be held throughout Rhode Island that provide education and awareness into Rhode Island’s history through the preservation of its historic cemetery landscapes.
Events include:
- A tour of God’s Little Acre, Newport, RI – the oldest documented extant African heritage burying ground in the US.
- A day of historic cemetery programs in Bristol organized by the Bristol Historical & Preservation Society (tour, demonstrations, exhibit, and more).
- Tours of the Free Burying Ground and amphibian habitats in Providence’s North Burial Ground.
- Tours of Silas Casey Lot at the historic seventeenth century Casey Farm in North Kingstown.
- Tours of “Birds and Burials” at Norman Bird Sanctuary in Middletown.
- A gravestone conservation workshop at the Pascoag Cemetery in Burrillville.
- Dozens of volunteer clean-ups.