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Cemetery Preservation
- Fencing and Entrance Archway
- Ground Penetrating Radar to determine extent of gravesites outside legal boundary
- Markers for unmarked graves
- Research to identify names for unmarked interments, i.e.: limited information is available via burial permits, death records, and Civil War pension files. These types of records indicate interment in the cemetery, but do not specify grave locations
- Single memorial for unmarked interments
- Educational materials and programing regarding AME Zion and US Colored Troops history in the cemetery
- Legal work
Educational Materials and Programs
- Design and maintenance of website
- Additional materials for curriculum projects, i.e.: focus on elementary grade levels that have not been addressed, as well as additional modules for middle and high schools
- Fact sheets
- Educational Posters
- PowerPoint presentations and materials that support them, i.e.: historic maps and images
- Interactive educational programming targeting different age groups
Research
- Transcription and preservation of handwritten 19th century legal documents related to Timbuctoo
- Curation of 19th newspaper articles about Timbuctoo and free African American communities in New Jersey
- Other historical research
- Archeological research