| Cemetery Works |
| Boulder, Colorado, USA established 2001 |
| Some Other Aspects of CemeteryWorks |
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Expanding interests has necessitated restructuring my website. The brief biography of James Robert BOX, Sergeant, 14 Texas [Dismounted] Cavalry [Johnson's] Regiment is accessed from the preceding hyperlink. The brief biography of Henry Harrison HIGH, Corporal, 15 Texas [Dismounted] Cavalry [Sweet's] Regiment is accessed from the preceding hyperlink. The expanded biography of Henry Harrison HIGH is accessed from the preceding hyperlink. Images from a brief walkabout 'Kit Carson Park Memorial Cemetery', Taos, New Mexico, are accessed from the preceding hyperlink. Navigation linkage will suffer while this restructuring propagates through the existing 80+ webpages. |
| Other Aspects of Columbia Cemetery |
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Veritable Out-Of-Doors Museum Park
A pioneer cemetery is a veritable out-of-doors museum park; a museum complex.
Investigators in a pioneer cemetery find elements of: The Columbia Cemetery, Boulder, CO, USA, is one such pioneer cemetery / museum complex. Columbia Cemetery |
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Veritable Museum Of History
The military headstones and markers provided by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs [ VA ] are distinctive / easily recognized and provide a starting point for historic investigation.There are ~ 161 military markers at Columbia Cemetery, as of an 01Dec01 count. Of these, The headstones provided by the VA to mark the graves of Union and Confederate Civil War and Spanish-American War dead are an easily recognized styles in which an image of a shield is undercut and the text is in bas-relief. These headstones were made from white marble and are nominal 10-12 inches in width, 4 inches in depth, with 20-22 inches in height [ exposed length ] Survey of the Columbia Cemetery military headstones has produced a tabular list of Civil War Veterans [ CWVs ] with their Units and Regiments names. This 'Columbia Cemetery Civil War Veteran's Roster' is available on a separate webpage. |
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Monument Conservation
Both professional and volunteer gravestone / headstone and monument conservation have been
underway at Columbia Cemetery since 1998. There is evidence of earlier professional and individual conservation.Reset Civil War Military Headstones
Since November 2001, a effort has been undertaken to reset sunken and tilted Civil War military headstone. The work is being performed utilizing professional monument conservation techniques and in accordance with standards of the 'Association for Gravestone Studies'. A description and images of the Civil War Military Headstones resetting work completed-to-date is available on a separate webpage.
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Some Websites Relevant to Historic Cemeteries and Cemetery Conservation
'Civil War Era Headstones and Markers' and 'Headstones and Markers [currently] Available' |
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Some Websites Relevant to Boulder and to the Columbia Cemetery
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Disclaimer:
This site has no affiliation with the
Excepting that, the website developer [ the 'Webmeister' ] is a member of and has received conservancy training from the 'Columbia Cemetery Conservation Corps'. |