Unearthing the stories of the dead means piecing together origins of people who settled Aroostook
Dr. Kimberly Sebold, University of Maine at Presque Isle Professor of History (in yellow), conducts cemetery mapping work with ArcGIS Online students. The students are using ground penetrating radar (foreground) to locate potential burial spots in the cemetery. (Courtesy of UMPI)
The unearthing begins with GPS mapping; with the logging of the latitude and longitude of each tombstone in 50 burial sites found in central Aroostook County. There are Irish cemeteries, Catholic cemeteries, small family plots, some with hard to decipher names and some large with more than 1,000 grave markers.
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