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We Need Your Help at Lincoln Cemetery Volunteer Restoration Weekends!
Come join our 100% Volunteer-Driven operated restoration of Harrisburg’s Oldest Black Cemetery!
We will be recovering sunken gravestones, removing litter, trimming trees, planting flowers, cleaning headstones, resetting gravestones, and a lot more!
You can help onsite with restoration work… Or you can provide a meal, work the grill, contribute lawn care equipment, share a bit of local/family history…
Everyone is needed!
Lincoln Cemetery Restoration Weekends are held:
* the 3rd Friday of every month
* Spring to Fall
* Friday to Sunday
* Noon to Dusk.
And..Everyone is welcome to join us in saving our ancestors’ legacy!
SOAL: SavingOurAncestorsLegacy is a 501c3 Nonprofit
Black Cemetery Restoration at Lincoln Cemetery
SOAL has been “Uncovering Gravestones Uncovering History“! Learn more about what SavingOurAncestorsLegacy Volunteers achieved in their first year restoring Harrisburg’s oldest African American Burial Ground: Lincoln Cemetery!
Uncovering Black History at Lincoln Cemetery Harrisburg
Jim Crow’s Graveyard in South-central Pennsylvania
It is time to tell the true history of Harrisburg’s Oldest Black Cemetery. Lincoln Cemetery was not founded in 1816, 1817, or 1927, as written iron on the cemetery’s front gates…The grounds of Lincoln Cemetery were consecrated, outside of the city limits, in November of 1877 on a plot of land that lies on the border of what is now the Town of Penbrook and Susquehanna Township in Dauphin county, Pennsylvania.
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Help us raise money and build support for our restoration of Harrisburg’s Lincoln Cemetery–Share how SOAL’s work has made your world richer!