Restoring History
Local Boy Scout Cleans Up Historic Cemetery
Posted: August 27, 2012
Boy Scouts from Troop 42 clear brush at the Mount Jackson Colored Cemetery off U.S. 11 on Saturday. Troop member Michael Knapp is organizing the effort to help restore the cemetery as part of a project that will help him earn the rank of Eagle Scout. (Photos by Michael Reilly / DN-R)
Knapp looks at photographs of cemetery markers on his computer Saturday.
HARRISONBURG — For months, Michael Knapp tossed around ideas for projects he could take on to earn the rank of Eagle Scout.
Then in April, he read an article in the Daily News-Record...
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