Thank you very much for your comments. We have worked to achieve what ssemed to be both tasteful and economical. Thanks for all that you are doing, as well. Pamela, >I think the signs look wonderful. I am not on the committee for Historical >Markers, but >I know our County Historical Society is active in replacing old Markers that >are gone or unreadable. And they are paying around $1800. to $2000.00 for >each Marker. >They have to do fundraising to achieve this for each marker. > >So this is a bargain and I'm so glad the Ind. Historical Bureau has thought >of our cemeteries and has given us this opportunity. > >One trustee had signage drawings done for a cemetery that a neighborhood has >been restoring, >his estimate was $6,000, and no one will see these signs from the road. >Doubt these will happen. > >I talked to one gentleman this week about working on his cemetery and >putting up a sign that states we restored this cemetery. He was afraid we >would put up something tacky. These are very clear in projecting the area >is historic. This was the cemetery that our County highway crews parked >the asphalt paver on top of his cemetery. Maybe a sign would have >helped.~ >This was a Wagon Train Cemetery. I've seen notes that state there were 125 >possible burials there. We now have 4 stones left. > >I love this OPPORTUNITY! >Lou Ann Clugh >Tippecanoe County Pioneer Cemeteries Group >See our cemeteries at: >http://www.rootsweb.com/~intippec/tcem.html > > >==== INPCRP Mailing List ==== >THIS IS A CEMETERY ----- > "Lives are commemorated - deaths are recorded - families >are reunited - memories are made tangible - and love is >undisguised. This is a cemetery. > "Communities accord respect, families bestow reverence, >historians seek information and our heritage is thereby enriched. > "Testimonies of devotion, pride and remembrance are carved >in stone to pay warm tribute to accomplishments and to the life - >not the death - of a loved one. The cemetery is homeland for family >memorials that are a sustaining source of comfort to the living. > "A cemetery is a history of people - a perpetual record of >yesterday and sanctuary of peace and quiet today. A cemetery >exists because every life is worth loving and remembering - always." > --Author unknown -- Seen at a monument dealer in West Union, IA Pamela J. Bennett Director Indiana Historical Bureau 140 North Senate Avenue Indianapolis, IN 46204-2296 317-232-2988 FAX: 317-232-3728 http://www.state.in.us/history