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HLC Adventure Club – Steele Creek Cemetery Headstone Preservation

Name: HLC Adventure Club – Steele Creek Cemetery Headstone Preservation
Start: 2022-10-29T09:00:00-04:00
End: 2022-10-29T11:00:00-04:00
Location: Steele Creek Cemetery

October 29, 2022 @ 9:00 am - 11:00 am

The Historic Landmarks Commission’s Adventure Club invites you to start your Halloween weekend with a fun, educational, and meaningful restoration project on Oct. 29. We need volunteers, and what could be better than spending an Autumn morning in the beautiful hallowed grounds of the Historic Steele Creek Cemetery? The cemetery contains headstones dating from 1763 and is the site of some of the most important funerary art in NC!

But recently air pollution has been hastening the stones’ deterioration. Luckily, cleaning the headstones with a mild biodegradable, pH neutral solution can protect them effectively for years. And that’s what we will be doing! Did we mention that we need volunteers?

No experience is necessary!

Details

Steele Creek Cemetery Headstone Preservation

Saturday, Oct. 29 from 9-11am

Steele Creek Cemetery, 7311 Steele Creek Road, Charlotte (beside the former Steele Creek Presbyterian Church)

Prepare to get dirty! Suggestions: wear old clothing and closed toe shoes.

We will supply all the needed tools and supplies. But to do that, we need to know how many people are coming.

Please register by Oct. 26

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Details

Date:: October 29, 2022
Time:: 9:00 am - 11:00 am
Event Category:: General
Event Tags:: Adventure Club

Venue

: Steele Creek Cemetery
: 7311 Steele Creek Road
Charlotte, NC United States + Google Map

Preservation + Affordable Housing

Join us on October 24th at the Dubois Center at UNC Charlotte Center City for a discussion on historic preservation and affordable housing with Donovan Rypkema. Find event details here.

Mr. Rypkema is one of the foremost experts in the economics of preservation, and he will discuss how vital it is to preserve existing housing in a community. You can read more about him here. Mr. Rypkema is extremely effective in using data to demonstrate that there is a negative effect on housing affordability every time an older residence, regardless of its value, is demolished.

This event is being sponsored by Mecklenburg County, UNC Charlotte, and the Lee Institute. We hope to see you there!