Union Cemetery Cleanup 1: Griffin Gives Back
About this Event
A brief History…
Union Cemetery is located on five acres on Placid Road and Grandview Drive in Griffin Georgia. There are believed to be at least 350 people buried there. This includes founders of local churches, World War I, II, Korea and Vietnam veterans as well as pauper burials.
With incomplete records, not only is the goal to restore and revitalize the known burial sites, but to connect records with the unknown burials. Through GPS mapping, we hope to identify and map grave sites, allowing families and descendants to pay their respects and preserving that knowledge for history.
Selected as the 2026 Griffin Gives Back Project, the first step of this challenge is to clear the underbrush and overgrown Wisteria vines from around the site. Volunteers will bring hand cutting tools and good old-fashioned manpower to cut and remove plants, clearing space around the graves.
The City will be providing tools, gloves, dumpsters and restroom facilities, as well as snacks and water.
Help us restore this cemetery to a place of quiet respect and dignity.
Where is it happening?
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