Achievements
As a non-profit 501(c)( 3) friends group to the City of Raleigh, our achievements include:
- Partnership with the City of Raleigh — Our working relationship provided a work plan and goals
- Restoration — We restored and provided conservation work on historic monuments, fences, and stone walls with assistance from descendants, funders and organizations
- Marketing Materials — Our walking tour maps promote heritage tourism in Raleigh. Our website includes GIS maps, inventories, and National Register and Local Register documents. We helped create online audio tours of O’Rorke Cemetery, Mt. Hope Cemetery and City Cemetery. Use your mobile phone to tour cemeteries at your pace.
- Membership — Members supported our operations and many projects. All funds went to restoration for the cemeteries or marketing.
- Mount Hope Cemetery —We created a traveling exhibit, in conjunction with the City of Raleigh Museum in July 2022, to highlight the history of African American citizens interred in Mount Hope.
- City Cemetery — National Register of Historic Places. The placement was achieved for City Cemetery, completed by M. Ruth Little, PhD, of Longleaf Historic Resources in 2008.
- Mount Hope Cemetery —National Register of Historic Places. The nomination was achieved for this 34-acre African American cemetery, completed by Ruth Little in 2009.
- O’Rorke-Catholic Cemetery — Local Raleigh Historic Landmark, written by Ruth Little. 2010
- Tornado Damage 2011- We assisted city staff and FEMA to inventory damaged monuments in City and Mount Hope cemeteries.
- Databases — We researched and published databases for City Cemetery, Mount Hope Cemetery and O’Rorke-Catholic Cemetery on this website.
- GIS Maps — Please see our GIS maps and corresponding database of each grave site with existing markers for both City Cemetery and Mount Hope Cemetery.
