FCCPA member Maddy McCoy sent the following letter to the Editor of The Washington Post. It appeared in the Tuesday, June 22, 2010 edition, page A18 under the headline Respect the dead — and history.
It has been disheartening to learn of the careless treatment of veterans’ remains and gravestones at Arlington National Cemetery ["Arlington headstones [...]
Archaeologist and Historian Patrick O’Neil presented “Archaeology in Cemeteries: Grave Locating and Marker Interpretation” - a report and discussion of his participation and findings in a 2005 survey of Fairfax City’s Ratcliffe Cemetery. The wooded and overgrown tract required extensive probing at one-foot intervals to discover and unearth buried markers and artifacts. Careful terrain analysis [...]
In a project planned and led by an Eagle Scout candidate, Boy Scout Troop 1983 cleared brush, cleaned markers, and constructed a new path adjacent to the cemetery, which is located on the grounds of Fairfax City’s Civil War Interpretive Center at Historic Blenheim.
The Willcoxon family were early settlers of what today is the City [...]
