Update on Cemetery and other Clean-up Projects
Peach
Park Cemetery – Little Creek Dam Road
During 2009 we continued our clean-up and improvements
to Peach Park Cemetery. Robert E. Lee trees were purchased and planted across the back border as well as Japanese maples on
the side and in the front.
Sunnyside Cemetery – Forge
Road
Our Camp continues to care for Sunnyside Cemetery and the Confederate Ancestors buried there.
2009 Projects
Cowles-Spencer
– Theodore Allen Road / Longhill Road
We moved through this site in one afternoon with
the help of several compatriots and friends of the camp, another success story. Future plans are to find some good, used,
affordable chain-link fencing to replace the existing fencing that is damaged. If we can locate reasonable fencing, we will
replace it next winter during a scheduled work day.
Fort Magruder-
Penniman Road
Our first clean-up day was very productive on the redoubt. The brush was cut and
cleared, hauled away and one tree was cut into smaller sections and removed. Work is progressing on re-setting the flag poles
and will be completed in the near future. Another work day was held on March 28 and will conclude our clean-up efforts at
the Fort for this year.
2010 Cemetery and Clean-up Projects
2010 started
with cleanup projects at Ft. Magruder and Cowles-Spencer Cemetery. Camp Compatriots with volunteers from two Boy Scout Troops,
Williamsburg Troop 103 and the Croaker Lone Scouts converged on the Fort two Saturdays in January for winter maintenance.
Trees were trimmed, brush cleared, trash removed and brush clearing was started on the berms. We will have two more clean-up
days at the Fort on February 13 and 20th. James City Cavalry's goal is to have the Fort in presentation form for the upcoming
150 year Sesquicentennial.
Camp Compatriots held a work day at Cowles-Spencer Cemetery off of
Theodore Allen Road in January, clearing brush, trees, removing trash and re-setting one of the broken headstones.
Peach
Park Cemetery continues to be one of our perpetual projects and in January we installed a new larger First National Flag.
The flag can be seen from all directions standing proudly over the grave of Lt. Col. James Harvey Allen of the 5th Virginia
Cavalry (James City Cavalry) who is buried there.
