Students were assigned particular grave markers in the cemetery. Students researched a deceased person, while studying how artifacts can mark the history of space and place within the urban environment of Middletown. John Hinchman, a lecturer and research specialist in the Architectural Conservation Laboratory of the Historic Preservation Program at the University of Pennsylvania, taught Milroy’s students how to use a “total station” and scanner tool to map the cemetery’s terrain and grave markers. The collected data is imported into engineering software AutoCAD, and as a result, the class will have a detailed and accurate map of the entire cemetery’s physical layout.
At the end of the semester, The class’s findings were donated to the Middletown Old Burial Ground Association.
Read more about the project in the Wesleyan Connection:
“Service Learning Class Studies Local Cemetery” (10/8/09)