Come join the SOAL Volunteer Team at Harrisburg’s oldest historically African American burial grounds: Lincoln Cemetery.

All ages and levels of experience welcome! Come for a few hours or all day. We are onsite rain or shine, in the heat and cold.

Join Saving Our Ancestors' Legacy for our third year leading hands-on educational volunteer experiences in Radical History Reclamation!

Black Cemetery Restoration recovers American History!

Event Activities Include:

Gravestone Cleaning
Finding Missing & Sunken Grave Markers
Resetting Headstones
Restoring Historic Cemetery Features
Repairing Broken Gravestones
Cradle Grave Gardening
Beautification of Grounds
Lawn Maintenance
Learn Proper Methods for Reading Headstones
Learn Local Black History
Light Building and Construction
Community Outreach & Education

You Might Also Learn Techniques for Online Cemetery Documentation:
Geotagging Gravesites
Cemetery Photography
Join SOAL: SavingOurAncestorsLegacy for the reclamation of Central PA African American History!

Lincoln Cemetery Harrisburg Restoration Weekends are:

Every 3rd Friday-Sunday of the Month (March-November)

Noon-Dusk

If you can't make it out --DONATE

You can also help by funding the SOAL at Lincoln Cemetery Harrisburg Restoration Project!

We Still Need:

People to join our management team, Meals for Events, Native Flowers & Trees, in-kind, and service-based contributions: including grant-writing, accounting, editing, legal assistance, genealogists, and your family stories, histories, and photos!

SOAL: SavingOurAncestorsLegacy is a 501c3 pubic charity

All donations are tax-deductible as allowable by law.

EIN: 87-4185990