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Historic preservation
Experts gather to restore and stabilize headstones, vault and obelisk in 200-year-old Jackson Street Cemetery
Photography by Paul Efland

In December, the Chicora Foundation, a South Carolina nonprofit preservation organization, and a preservation mason and his crew helped with specialized tasks as part of a five-year stabilization and preservation plan for the 1,000-grave cemetery. Left: Nicole Southerland, a Chicora employee, helps to repair a split headstone. Above, top photo: Leaven Friedrichs chips old mortar off bricks. Above: (From right) Mason John Friedrichs, Leaven Friedrichs and Billy Friar remortar a brick burial vault.
 
 


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