We're in the process of doing some preservation work on [a] building [from] 1914. And unfortunately there are some graves around the outside of the building that we don't have any documentation for.

Property is cut into littler and littler pieces, until all that's left is a cemetery and parking lot. We're in a race to document the old cemeteries before they disappear.

Families die off, there's no city or state money to maintain them, and they get overgrown or become a trash dump.

Some of the other ones, the equipment is very expensive and hard to get a hold of. Typically you would do a soil scraping. But, we wanted something that was non-evasive.

A description from a while back might say: Go out to the end of Ben White, when that was the end of town, and take a dirt road off to the left. Now there's a subdivision there, and you can't find it anymore.

The city just grew up around it.