June Day 2: SOAL Hands-On Cemetery Restoration
Join us for a hands-on experience restoring the historic Lincoln Cemetery with Save Our Ancestors' Legacy (SOAL)!
Date and time
Location
201 S 30th St
201 South 30th Street Penbrook, PA 17103Refund Policy
About this event
Come join the SOAL Volunteer Team at Harrisburg’s oldest historically African American burial grounds: Lincoln Cemetery for a Free/Donation-based one-of-a-kind experience!
All ages and levels of experience welcome! Come for a few hours or all day. We are onsite rain or shine, in the heat and cold.
Join Saving Our Ancestors' Legacy for our third year leading hands-on educational volunteer experiences in Radical History Reclamation!
Black Cemetery Restoration recovers American History!
Event Activities Include:
- Gravestone Cleaning
- Finding Missing & Sunken Grave Markers
- Resetting Headstones
- Restoring Historic Cemetery Features
- Repairing Broken Gravestones
- Cradle Grave Gardening
- Beautification of Grounds
- Lawn Maintenance
- Learn Proper Methods for Reading Headstones
- Learn Local Black History
- Light Building and Construction
- Community Outreach & Education
You Might Also Learn Techniques for Online Cemetery Documentation:
- Geotagging Gravesites
- Cemetery Photography
Join SOAL: SavingOurAncestorsLegacy for the reclamation of Central PA African American History!
Lincoln Cemetery Harrisburg Restoration Weekends are:
Every 3rd Friday-Sunday of the Month (March-November)
Noon-Dusk
PLEASE FILL OUT A PARTICIPANT WAIVER ON GOOGLE FORMS https://forms.gle/VuJ3heXLouQofNJMA
Learn More on all of our channels!
Follow the Discussion & the SOAL Facebook page for updates on special events and workshops
If you can't make it out --DONATE
You can also help by funding the SOAL at Lincoln Cemetery Harrisburg Restoration Project!
We Still Need:
People to join our board and management team, in-kind, and service-based contributions: including grant-writing, accounting, meals and snacks for volunteers, tools, materials, vehicles, tree services, web design and development, copy editing, legal assistance, visual and performing artists, volunteer management, program and project managers, storytellers, cemetery restoration specialists to lead special workshops, arborists, farmers, a herd of goats, sheep, and alpacas, film makers, oral historians, genealogists, and YOU to share family stories, research, and photos!
Just to name a few!
SOAL: SavingOurAncestorsLegacy is a 501c3 pubic charity
All donations are tax-deductible as allowable by law.
EIN: 87-4185990
Frequently asked questions
As a volunteer-based nonprofit we depend on donations from people like you to continue to be able to do this important work. But, if you prefer to donate in person or in-kind--just enter a zero dollar donation amount at checkout.
We always appreciate when SOAL volunteers bring snacks to share, bottled waters, and a cash donation--but none of these items are required for your participation!
You can visit lincolncemetery.org for information about Lincoln Cemetery and about SOAL: SavingOurAncestorsLegacy--and for links to our social media channels, ways to donate, and learn more about the ancestors!
We have some tools, work gloves, and equipment on site, but you are welcome to bring your own as well! We also take donations!