The Green Mountain Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution is pleased to announce that they are awarding the Essex Cemetery Commission a Historic Preservation Recognition Award. The award is presented for their work in restoring the Essex Common Burial Ground. The awards ceremony will take place on Saturday, June 19, at 10:30 a.m. at the entrance to the Essex Common Burial Ground in Essex Center.

The Daughters of the American Revolution Historic Preservation Recognition Award is designed to recognize worthy local individuals and groups for outstanding achievement in all areas of historic preservation. This award recognizes and honors an individual or group that had done recent remarkable volunteer work at the community level. The recipients are expected to have contributed to their community in an outstanding volunteer manner.

The Essex Cemetery Commission recognized that the scope of work needed in the Burial Ground far exceeded their capacity as a volunteer entity, and they formulated a plan that would repair, restore and clean all of the stones in the historic cemetery. After researching possible funding, they applied for and were awarded a $25,000 preservation grant made possible by a partnership between the Freeman Foundation and the Preservation Trust of Vermont to clean and repair all of the old stones. The contract for the restoration work was awarded to Bianchi Stone Crafters. The Cemetery Commission continued to monitor the progress of the restoration until it was complete.

After the award presentation, members of the Essex Community Historical Society will be available to answer questions about the Revolutionary War soldiers and others buried in the Burial Ground. .

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