Property is cut into littler and littler pieces, until all that's left is a cemetery and parking lot. We're in a race to document the old cemeteries before they disappear.

A description from a while back might say: Go out to the end of Ben White, when that was the end of town, and take a dirt road off to the left. Now there's a subdivision there, and you can't find it anymore.

Families die off, there's no city or state money to maintain them, and they get overgrown or become a trash dump.

Some of the other ones, the equipment is very expensive and hard to get a hold of. Typically you would do a soil scraping. But, we wanted something that was non-evasive.

We're in the process of doing some preservation work on [a] building [from] 1914. And unfortunately there are some graves around the outside of the building that we don't have any documentation for.