The following excerpt is from the February 16, 2013 edition of the Marietta Times.
Marietta, Ohio: A group of Marietta College students, faculty and other interested community members outlined plans for the next several months of project development in the new endeavor titled: Marietta Cemeteries Coming Alive.
Creating accurate burial map information about Marietta’s most famous cemetery, Mound Cemetery in the heart of the historic district on Fifth Street was selected as an immediate project. Marietta College’s Bob Van Camp has an upper level computer sciences class of nine students who are working with the project. Mound was selected because of its historical importance, its limited size and layout.
Marietta Cemeteries Coming Alive is a project to create a user friendly electronic data base for burial information and to partner with the city in repair and upkeep of the historic cemeteries. Oak Grove, in particular, experienced heavy damage in the June 29 storm, with huge trees upended upon 17 tombstones and obelisks.
