As a busy highway is expanded to help ease traffic, it will cross directly over a family cemetery in a medium sized central Georgia town. Stood at the cemetery site yesterday taking measurements because this town wants to honor its heritage rather than forget it.
Before the road will be expanded they want to relocate the cemetery. And as they relocate they are doing everything in their power to do it right!
That's precisely where Omega Mapping Services comes in to help.
Within a few weeks, if all goes well, we will be on this site, with Ground Penetrating Radar busy attempting to discover where each burial is located. There are less than five headstones and slabs spotted, but numerous field stones marking the peaceful rest of the deceased. We did a spot scan yesterday to simply get an idea of what to expect and, as expected, found numerous hyperbolas...numerous potential burials.
This GPR and mapping assignment will be very interesting.
Saturday, January 22, 2011
Monday, January 17, 2011
Ground Penetrating Radar for a Neighborhood Association
...really couldn't scan much today, 40 degrees and spitting rain.
Yet we were "out in it," at least for awhile, in a family cemetery in Middle Georgia. A modern neighborhood association, in a very nice community south of Macon is considering mapping and Ground Penetrating Radar scan of the early 19th century cemetery which they drive pass each day.
It was an amazing site. The site was more-or-less forgotten for more than 150 years. But now the 21st century has come knocking on the door of those dear, departed saints. Now well-intentioned members of the The Association have put in a Trojan Effort to get the site cleaned up and ready for salvation.
What a site: I saw memorial markers dating back into the early 1800's. One man was born in 1783! I would imagine the site measures about 1.3 acres and there are two iron-fenced in areas, less than 50 graves marked by granite markers.
But even in the rain, unofficially, we found more than a dozen unmarked burials.
Just as historians suggest, many servants and slaves were buried outside the family lots and, as expected, that is where we found most of the unmarked burials. I betcha I found ten under one lone, large oak tree. All laid out in perfect order, west facing east...all waiting for the Lord to come again in the eastern sky.
This work really is fulfilling...those folks have long since been forgotten, overlooked, but we intend to honor their heritage.
Yet we were "out in it," at least for awhile, in a family cemetery in Middle Georgia. A modern neighborhood association, in a very nice community south of Macon is considering mapping and Ground Penetrating Radar scan of the early 19th century cemetery which they drive pass each day.
It was an amazing site. The site was more-or-less forgotten for more than 150 years. But now the 21st century has come knocking on the door of those dear, departed saints. Now well-intentioned members of the The Association have put in a Trojan Effort to get the site cleaned up and ready for salvation.
What a site: I saw memorial markers dating back into the early 1800's. One man was born in 1783! I would imagine the site measures about 1.3 acres and there are two iron-fenced in areas, less than 50 graves marked by granite markers.
But even in the rain, unofficially, we found more than a dozen unmarked burials.
Just as historians suggest, many servants and slaves were buried outside the family lots and, as expected, that is where we found most of the unmarked burials. I betcha I found ten under one lone, large oak tree. All laid out in perfect order, west facing east...all waiting for the Lord to come again in the eastern sky.
This work really is fulfilling...those folks have long since been forgotten, overlooked, but we intend to honor their heritage.
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