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    • About Timbuctoo
      • Timbuctoo: Brief History
      • Notable Places and Events
      • NJ Mirror Articles
    • Historical Society
      • Our Mission
      • Accomplishments
      • Cemetery Preservation
    • Informational Resources
      • Curriculum Development
      • Writing on Timbuctoo
      • Podcasts
      • Presentations and Videos
      • Report to Westampton Twp.
      • Press Coverage
    • Contact or Questions
    • Support Our Work!
  • Home
  • About Timbuctoo
    • Timbuctoo: Brief History
    • Notable Places and Events
    • NJ Mirror Articles
  • Historical Society
    • Our Mission
    • Accomplishments
    • Cemetery Preservation
  • Informational Resources
    • Curriculum Development
    • Writing on Timbuctoo
    • Podcasts
    • Presentations and Videos
    • Report to Westampton Twp.
    • Press Coverage
  • Contact or Questions
  • Support Our Work!

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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

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