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The past comes alive in historic Fredericksburg, but each Halloween, it\u2019s the dead who are memorialized by University of Mary Washington\u2019s Historic Preservation Club.<\/p>\n

\"Freshman
Freshman Eliza Vegas leads a “Graves and Ghouls” tour through the Fredericksburg City Cemetery earlier in October. The socially distanced tour replaced the Historic Preservation Club’s popular Ghostwalk this year. Photo by Suzanne Carr Rossi.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Earlier this month, the club\u2019s annual Ghostwalk \u2013 a popular attraction for the past 36 years \u2013 transformed into \u201cGraves and Ghouls,\u201d a graveyard tour that was socially distanced due to the ongoing pandemic. Small groups visited Fredericksburg City Cemetery to learn about tombstones and those entombed there. Twenty UMW students contributed to the project, serving as tour guides and script writers and helping with marketing and social media.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s completely different from Ghostwalks of the past,\u201d said Megan Williams, a junior history and historic preservation double major, who serves as the club\u2019s vice president. She and president Cody Youngblood were inspired to create the tour after taking Professor Andr\u00e9a Livi Smith\u2019s \u201cGraves and Burial Grounds\u201d course last fall.<\/p>\n

\u201cMany people think of cemeteries as strange or mysterious places, but they\u2019re full of art and history,\u201d said Youngblood, a senior historic preservation major who finds the imagery on grave markers particularly interesting. \u201cEverything from a weeping willow to a lamb or a broken column all symbolize different aspects of a person\u2019s life or the story the family wanted to tell on their loved one\u2019s headstone.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fredericksburg\u2019s spookier side was on full display on the tour, with participants visiting the final resting places of some of the city\u2019s more than 3,300 dead, from notable locals \u2013 doctors, lawyers, soldiers, mayors, and civic and religious leaders \u2013 to average citizens.<\/p>\n

While exploring the cemetery, the oldest in Fredericksburg and a Virginia Historic Landmark, visitors learned about the city\u2019s only mausoleum and unique architectural designs like the \u201ccorn-cob\u201d fence surrounding one plot. They also got a crash course in Victorian-era funerary practices, such as the use of zinc or \u201cwhite bronze\u201d markers and ornate \u201cWoodman of the World\u201d graves shaped like tree stumps.<\/p>\n

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Freshman Eliza Vegas gives tour participants a crash course in Victorian-era funerary practices, which included use of these zinc or “white bronze” markers that were manufactured by the Monumental Bronze Company of Bridgeport, Connecticut from 1874 to 1914. Photo by Suzanne Carr Rossi. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
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Senior Brianna Melick leads a Graves and Ghouls tour of the City Cemetery, where more than 3,300 dead Fredericksburg residents have been buried. This image shows off the ornate “corn-cob” fence around one plot. Photo by Suzanne Carr Rossi. <\/div> <\/div>
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Freshman Eliza Vegas shows off the massive iron City Cemetery gate, constructed by local iron workers and stone masons. Photo by Suzanne Carr Rossi. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
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Small groups spread out on this socially distanced tour, which replaced the Historic Preservation Club’s popular Ghostwalk this year. Photo by Suzanne Carr Rossi. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
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The grave of iron-worker William James Drinan, who was the first person to be buried in the City Cemetery in 1844. Legend has it that whoever is the first laid to rest in a graveyard becomes the guide for other souls who are buried there. Photo by Suzanne Carr Rossi. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Senior <\/a>
Senior Brianna Melick tells visitors about the cemetery’s only mausoleum, and its occupants, Judge Alexander Wallace and wife Victoria, who both died in 1927. Photo by Suzanne Carr Rossi. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>\n

After leading Ghostwalks for each of her four years at UMW, Alexandra Erpenbach \u201920 said she enjoyed being in the audience for the first time. A former historic preservation major, who also took Smith\u2019s course, Erpenbach even discovered a few things she hadn\u2019t known.<\/p>\n

\u201cI learned that it\u2019s bad luck to be the first buried in a cemetery,\u201d she said, referring to iron-worker William James Drinan, who worked for Hunt Iron Works, the company that made the massive gate for the adjoining Confederate Cemetery. Upon his death in 1844, he became the first to be interred in the City Cemetery. \u201cThat person\u2019s soul supposedly becomes the guide for other souls that are laid to rest there.\u201d<\/p>\n

What could be more eerie than that?<\/p>\n

Happy Halloween!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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