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SAVING GRAVES
A collaborative effort of cemetery preservation advocates working to increase public awareness and activism in preserving , protecting, and restoring endangered and forgotten historic cemeteries worldwide. |
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Hi, I'm Pam MacLearn and I am the webmaster for this site. If you have any comments or other info please email me! |
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This site is under construction. |
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Cumberland County, Maine |
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Maine Home Page About Nations Reports Library News Events Projects Support Volunteers Links Search |
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Saving Graves is strongly committed to the preservation and protection of human burial sites from unauthorized and unwarranted disturbance, by man or nature. Saving Graves was formed to educate and assist in the worldwide networking of people interested in protecting, restoring and preserving our historic cemeteries. We believe that the willful desecration or destruction of human burial sites is unacceptable in a civilized society. All over the globe,
cemeteries have been threatened by neglect, insufficient funds, inappropriate development or insensitive public policy. These cemeteries constitute a memento of great achievements of the common everyday people that lived and worked there, contributing greatly to both culture and science, leading to the creation of a better place for those that followed. It is our primary objective to increase the awareness and highlight the importance of our historic cemeteries as sources of community
and state pride, while promoting an attitude of reverence and respect, and encouraging the further preservation of these unique historical resources for future generations to appreciate and learn from. If society fails to appropriately and adequately deal with this issue through some definitive action, whether legislative
or otherwise, not only will genealogical and historical resources
likely be irreparably harmed, but society will potentially lose a valuable resource for charting its inexorable course into annals of human history. |
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Eastern Cemetery, Portland, Captain's Gravestones 100 years ago |
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Cumberland County Towns and Cities |
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Nationwide Gravesite Locator |
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County / Local Cemetary Preservation Law |
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County / Local Government |
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Maine Cemetary News: |
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County / Local Enforcement |
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Endangered Cemetaries |
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Old unmarked graves, including that of a soldier of the war of 1812, are discovered in Lyman. |
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Cumberland County Cemetaries |
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Cemetary Locating Services |
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County / Local Preservation Services |
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Maine Law and American Indian Grave Protection |
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Find a Grave |
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Other Maine Preservation Groups |
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Maine Legislative Bills |
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Spanish-American War Veterans buried in Maine |
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This site was last updated Jan. 27, 2008. |
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Copyright � 2000 - 2005 Saving Graves
All Rights Reserved |
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