On a bright, crisp day in Harrisburg last October, several SHPO staff members toured Lincoln Cemetery. Several years before, Rachael Keri Williams, a descendent of ancestors buried at Lincoln Cemetery, started Saving Our Ancestors Legacy (SOAL)—an organization of descendants working to restore Lincoln Cemetery’s grounds, and reconnect the community with the cemetery’s story and the lives of those laid to rest on its grounds. This February, Lincoln Cemetery was presented to the Pennsylvania Historic Preservation Board who approved the nomination. It will hopefully be listed in the National Register later this year.
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Arden Jordan is a National Register Reviewer at the Pennsylvania State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO), where she helps Pennsylvanians nominate historic buildings and neighborhoods to The National Register of Historic Places. Arden received her master’s in historic preservation from the University of Pennsylvania and her BA in public history from Bennington College. She has interned and worked at historic sites and research centers across the country, including Strawbery Banke Museum in Portsmouth NH; Project Row Houses in Houston, TX; and the Center for the Preservation of Civil Rights Sites in Philadelphia, PA. She lives in South Philadelphia with her partner and senior cat Frankie.
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