Journeay Family Burying Ground - Annadale This cemetery is contained in the proposed Arden Heights Woods Park.Boy Scout Troop #63 assisted FACSI in a cleanup of this cemetery this year.įountain Cemetery - West Brighton Fred Crane was able to locate in Plot #107 an ancestor named "Wilton" for Lorraine H. The Landmarks Commission will be notified of work to be done. Marjorie Johnson, who along with Dick Dickenson serves as FACSI liaison to the SIIAS project, has offered to compile a slide show on the cemetery. FACSI is to participate in the project as a community-based collaborator. Blazing Star Cemetery/Sleight Family Burying Ground - Rossville The Burial Ground Environmental & Historic Documentation and Education Project of the Urban Resources Partnership -National Parks Service has awarded a grant to the Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences to document the historic Blazing Star Cemetery in all its aspects.Baron Hirsch Cemetery - Graniteville Cleanup crews comprised of inmates from Arthur Kill Correctional Facility, at the request of Borough President Guy Molinari restored 141 toppled headstones over a three day effort in response to an incident of vandalism.A current task is to reduce wood piles at Lake and Staten Island Cemeteries to wood chips and spread them along the paths. To volunteer to assist Fred Crane in this important work, please call, 718-xxx-xxxx. At the request of new members, we have added cemeteries, Sailors Snug Harbor and Silver Lake, to our list for visits. In addition to our regularly scheduled cleanups, we periodically walk through the cemeteries, picking up trash, checking for vandalism, encroachment and dumping. The next issue of the FACSI Newsletter will feature a reprint. Dickenson, President of FACSI and Staten Island Borough Historian, was the subject of a lengthy interview in the August/September 1997 issue of Update: Newsletter of the African Burial Ground & Five Points Archeological Project.
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