I find a great deal of satisfaction digging here.

[creskol]

A followup post to my restoration project.

The initial discovery phase .. some still buried:

Brought out to the site to match up the various parts and pieces:

Six of the stones are standing once again after many years of being buried:

 

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[Digger RJ]

A followup post to my restoration project.

The initial discovery phase .. some still buried:
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Brought out to the site to match up the various parts and pieces:
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Six of the stones are standing once again after many years of being buried:
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Very Cool!!!

 

[creskol]

Very Cool!!!

Thank you Digger!

 

[tnt-hunter]

Nicely done. If I think this through right, you FOUND the pieces of the stones and put them back together and restored them. So it is part of todays finds and is a marvelously good deed so I think you deserve an honorable mention.

Way to go, stay safe, good luck and keep swingin.

 

[Kray Gelder]

Noble labor, there. Had any volunteer help?

 

[creskol]

Noble labor, there. Had any volunteer help?

No .. I have been doing this all by my lonesome.

 

[ARC]

Nicely done. If I think this through right, you FOUND the pieces of the stones and put them back together and restored them. So it is part of todays finds and is a marvelously good deed so I think you deserve an honorable mention.

Way to go, stay safe, good luck and keep swingin.

Agreed... well done.

 

[creskol]

Nicely done. If I think this through right, you FOUND the pieces of the stones and put them back together and restored them. So it is part of todays finds and is a marvelously good deed so I think you deserve an honorable mention.

Way to go, stay safe, good luck and keep swingin.

Thank you tnt-hunter and thank you for the H.M. nod!

 

[GaRebel1861]

I think you deserve a Honorable Mention for that. Good job!

 

[creskol]

Agreed... well done.

I think you deserve a Honorable Mention for that. Good job!

Thanks guys.. I appreciate that!

 

[ticndig]

I agree , Honorable mention for such an honorable endeavor.

 

[detectorcowboy]

Look like a lot of work

 

[creskol]

I agree , Honorable mention for such an honorable endeavor.

Thanks ticndig !

 

[pepperj]

You certainly have put a lot of time and effort into the restoration of these plots.
Just from following one site in my area, the amount of folks involved, and labour, just pales to what you have done on your own. Congratulations

 

[Tpmetal]

I have thought about this before, there are hundreds of these small grave yards around me. Some are single family plots, some defunct communities that just never made it. Problem is most of them are on state land, and I am positive NYS would charge me with some sort of crime for trying to clean them up. Just a shame that there are so many that have not seen one touch of care in the past 100 years. Some you don't even realize are graves, as you just see the corners of a few rocks poking through the ground at a distance. A few more years and most will be next to impossible to find by just looking with your eyes.

 

[creskol]

You certainly have put a lot of time and effort into the restoration of these plots.
Just from following one site in my area, the amount of folks involved, and labour, just pales to what you have done on your own. Congratulations

Thank you Pepperj .. it is a labor of love for sure.

I have thought about this before, there are hundreds of these small grave yards around me. Some are single family plots, some defunct communities that just never made it. Problem is most of them are on state land, and I am positive NYS would charge me with some sort of crime for trying to clean them up. Just a shame that there are so many that have not seen one touch of care in the past 100 years. Some you don't even realize are graves, as you just see the corners of a few rocks poking through the ground at a distance. A few more years and most will be next to impossible to find by just looking with your eyes.

It really is a shame, Tpmetal. I wish there was an Adopt-A-Cemetery program similar to the Adopt-A-Highway program. Sometimes you can appeal to the state to restore those on state property. Those that fall in the Forest Service boundaries are pretty much out of the question.

 

[creskol]

Raining and icy out, but I managed to do one more. Still lots of work on this stone to do, but at least the base is back in place and the stone is temporarily sitting on the base. The repairs will have to wait for a dryer and warmer day.

 

[creskol]

Just for the record, here is what the section I am currently working on looked like exactly one year ago.

 

[Kray Gelder]

Man. Bramble/blackberry vines. Hope you didn't lose too much blood.

 

[billb]

Honorable Mention on your hard work