Update of September 2007
Ivan Myjer, of Building & Monument Conservation, and David Lager, of NETCO, start conservation survey of Newtown Cemetery.

Update of Summer 2007
Founder's Burial Ground access ensured through a cooperative effort of the Land Bank and the Nantucket Anglers Club.

Update of August 2006
Cemetery Commission Workgroup of the town of Nantucket formed. CPC funding pursued.

Update of July 2006
Detailed map of Old North Cemetery completed by Preservation Institute Students. Database and website updated.

Update of 22 July 2004
Article in The Inquirer & Mirror, Winged Skulls and Garlanded Urns: Recording the Cemeteries of Nantucket

Update of 29 December 2004
Newtown and Mill Hill Cemetery maps, completed by Preservation Institute: Nantucket student Charlotte Winters, added to website.

Update of 29 October 2003
An article featuring the NHA Cemetery Project was published today in the Nantucket Independent. The article, "Gone but not forgotten," written by Panos Kakaviatatos, is available here online. Click here to see the article (PDF).

Update of 27 October 2003
The data collected by the Preservation Institute: Nantucket students Susan Jolley and Jill Donlop is all entered into database and maps added to website. Thanks to Penny Snow, Peg Read, Susan Kirk, Brenda Frey, and Trevor Lochley who worked to enter this data.

Update of September 2003
Jim Powers, local photographer, has added some of his photographs of markers in the Old North Cemetery to the online database. These serve the dual purpose of giving us an image and letting us know which stones still exist.

Update of 19 June 2003
Barbara White, several other teachers, and about 50 eighth graders met me at the Old North Cemetery on Monday and Tuesday. They recorded the epitaphs, monument condition and size, and design motifs of the markers in sections C, D, and most of G. A dedicated friend (who didn't know what I was getting him into) helped me grid out the right side of the cemetery on Sunday; we then assigned a letter to each section, according to our grid map. I initially tried to also number each stone, but with there being so many footstones, and headstones without footstones, and absolutely no lines, I gave that up; it's okay - people will still be able to find the stones and we can always GPS them later. The kids did a great job.

Update 2002
Barbara White, teacher at Cyrus Peirce Middle School, led students in a recording of epitaphs in the Mill Hill Cemetery. A copy of this data is available here (PDF)

Update 2001
Cemetery inscription project begins with Old North Cemetery.