Dartmouth Cemetery Conservation Group
Dartmouth Cemetery Events
Join us for a Dartmouth Cemetery headstone preservation and cleaning event this 2025 summer and fall. Come have some fun outside while cleaning headstones and preserving history!
Dartmouth Cemetery Conservation Group will be meeting in the cemetery on the following dates to clean and preserve headstones. If you have questions or are interested, please contact Petra Sergent (petra.sergent@dartmouth.edu).
Please wear old clothes. Everything else needed will be provided. The cemetery is located behind Class of '53 Commons and Fairbanks near the green. Please meet at the main cemetery entrance.
Saturday, August 9th 8am-12pm
Saturday, August 23rd 8am-12pm
Saturday, September 6th 8am-12pm
Saturday, September 20th 8am-12pm
Additional Information
Check out:
- The first in the Dartmouth Research on Death & Dying series: Inequities for Pre-Civil War Black New Englanders, which took place on Wednesday, May 10, 2023
- This Dartmouth article on the current efforts of the Dartmouth Cemetery Conservation Group.
- This student-created podcast capturing stories from the cemetery!
Also, see what the Rauner Special Collections Library has been digitizing relative to the cemetery.