NEW: Pawtucket Cemetery to be Rededicated Sunday

NEW: Pawtucket Cemetery to be Rededicated Sunday

The historic Mineral Spring Cemetery in Pawtucket will be rededicated on Sunday after an extensive cleanup and restoration project. The long-neglected cemetery, dating to the 1790s, holds the remains of over 200 veterans of the Revolutionary and Civil Wars.

Over the past few months, Cub and Boy Scouts from Pack 1/Troop – assisted by youth volunteers from a summer work program at the Woodlawn Community Center and city Department of Public works and neighborhood volunteers – worked to restore over 500 headstones and remark lanes in the cemetery. The city repaired the back fence, re-welded the front gates and constructed lane signs to mark the cemetery’s original layout.

“This has truly been a community effort that the city was happy to assist,” said Mayor Donald R. Grebien. “The rededication ceremony will recognize all the hard work that so many volunteers have put into restoring such a historic resting place, and this project shows what can happen when committed people are inspired to come together for an important purpose.”

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The rededication ceremony – free and open to the public – will be held at the cemetery, on Mineral Spring Ave. near the intersection of Main St. on Sunday at 10:30 a.m. Scouts, volunteers, and Mayor Grebien will unveil a new sign in front of local veterans and Civil War re-enactors. Scout leader Ken Postle, Jr. will be among those giving remarks.