Greenwood Cemetery Crumbling

[sandyshoes]

Surely there is City money somewhere to help preserve more local history?  https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/at-crumbling-cemetery-there-is-greatness-within-says-man-documenting-the-lives-there/ar-BB19QqJS

[fieldafm]

Surely there is City money somewhere to help preserve more local history?  https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/at-crumbling-cemetery-there-is-greatness-within-says-man-documenting-the-lives-there/ar-BB19QqJS

You mean like this?

https://www.thejaxsonmag.com/article/108-million-project-planned-for-moncrief-cemeteries/

[thelakelander]

I'm not in front of a computer today to look it up, but I believe Greenwood is privately owned. Also haven't been out to visit the cemeteries in a few months but the ones the city has been working on, were looking better earlier this year.

[fieldafm]

Greenwood is owned by Restlawn Cemeteries (noted as such in the TU article) via Mark Riposta, who bought the property via foreclosure about six years ago. He has actually improved the property quite a bit since acquiring it. Michael Swain is a former employee, who has done the yeoman's work of documenting the cemetery's early history and cleaning up the oldest pieces of the property (now on a volunteer basis).

Here is some info on some of the work that has been going on in the cemetery since Riposta took over:

https://www.firstcoastnews.com/article/money/consumer/on-your-side/jacksonville-woman-says-someone-is-buried-in-her-grave-she-wants-to-know-why/77-384541963