Category: Cemeteries & Monuments

Good Evidence of the Value of Cleaning Cemetery Headstones

May 30, 2019

Cross-posted from The Hanneman Archive Over the past several years, I’ve done restoration and cleaningof many grave monuments across Wisconsin. Since the special chemicals used to clean the monuments can take a month or more to  take full effect, I don’t often see the final, final product. So I was very impressed with a photograph … More Good Evidence of the Value of Cleaning Cemetery Headstones

Save Historic Gravestones with a Good Cleaning

July 11, 2017

Cemeteries should be timeless venues where descendants can visit the resting places of their ancestors. Lichens, black mold and airborne pollutants wage a silent assault on the grave monuments that pay tribute to the dead. But with a good, careful cleaning, these stone remembrances can be saved from eventual destruction. Today’s cemetery headstones are better … More Save Historic Gravestones with a Good Cleaning