The following guides and manuals provide invaluable information
pertaining to “best practices” in recording, preserving, maintaining and restoring historic burial grounds and cemeteries. These examples are drawn from a variety of resources,
including The National Park Service and State Historic Preservation offices (SHPOs).
- Massachusetts Department of Conservation & Recreation (DCR) Terra Firma 10 Mourning Glory Preserving Historic cemeteries (2011) Preservation Guidelines for Municipally Owned Historic Burial Grounds and Cemeteries (2009)
Michigan State Historic Preservation Office
Michigan Historic Cemeteries Preservation Guide (2004)
National Park Service: Technical Preservation Services
Preservation Brief 48 Preserving Grave Markers in Historic Cemeteries (2016)
Association for Gravestone Studies
Lynette Strangstad’s book, A Graveyard Preservation Primer
David Allen’s book, A Guide to Massachusetts Cemeteries
Pamela Goffinet’s book, Mapping and Documenting Cemeteries
Glen A. Knoblock’s book, African American Historic Burial Grounds
and Gravesites of New England
