- A group opportunity. Invite your friends.
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38 people are interested
Help restore an endangered piece of Black history
ORGANIZATION: Woodlawn Cemetery Perpetual Care Association
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- A group opportunity. Invite your friends.
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38 people are interested
The newly reinvigorated Woodlawn Cemetery Perpetual Care Association is seeking groups and individual volunteers to:
-Clear trees, bushes and brush and put them in dumpsters to be hauled away
-Cut English ivy from trees
-Remove trash
-Assist with stream-bed restoration
-Canvass adjacent neighborhoods and information about the cemetery
-Perform research on the people buried there
If you like being outside, getting a cardio and muscular workout, and being able to see the results of your work, this is the opportunity for you.
Individuals, families and groups of all ages are welcome.
We have scheduled monthly events but are also pleased to accommodate groups and individuals who would like to help at other times. After initial orientation, volunteers can work whenever it is convenient for them.
All volunteers receive free orientation, training and equipment. Equipment and water are provided.
Documentation of community service hours and letters of recommendation are available upon request.
More opportunities with Woodlawn Cemetery Perpetual Care Association
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About Woodlawn Cemetery Perpetual Care Association
Location:
4639 Benning Rd SE, Washington, DC 20019, US
Mission Statement
Woodlawn Cemetery Perpetual Care Association honors the memory and legacy of the prominent African Americans buried at Woodlawn Cemetery in Washington, DC’s Ward 7. We restore, preserve and interpret this historical resource for the benefit of residents of and visitors.
Description
From its founding in 1895 until the 1950s, it was the preeminent burial place for African American Washingtonians.
It is the final resting place of Blanche K. Bruce, the first first black Senator to serve a full term, educator Roscoe Conkling Bruce, famed abolitionist Wilson Bruce Evans, lawyer, educator and Congressman John Mercer Langston, composer Will Marion Cook, playwright and educator Mary P. Burrill, and educator, lawyer, and journalist John Wesley Cromwell, among many others.
Like the east side of DC as a whole, the cemetery has suffered from lack of resources and investment over the past fifty years. Fewer than a hundred monuments or grave stones remain both visible in their original location, and of these some are in poor condition. Several hundred lay in small piles amid grass on the north side of the property. Hundreds more are remain obscured by brush and small trees.
The Cemetery is on the National Register of Historic Places, but it in shameful condition. It's time to do something about it.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
3939 Benning Road SEWashington, DC 20019
DATE POSTED
December 18, 2016
SKILLS
- Landscaping
- Research
- Grant Writing / Research
- Fundraising
- Archeology
- Habitat Restoration
GOOD FOR
- Teens
- Group
REQUIREMENTS
- Flexible