Manatee County preserves history with headstone cleaning
Manatee Village grave cleanup By ABC7 Staff | May 13, 2021 at 9:46 PM EDT - Updated May 14 at 6:24 AM
BRADENTON, Fla. (WWSB) - The history of Manatee County lies just off Manatee Avenue and 15th Street. It’s a history the county is hoping to preserve with a program to clean gravestones.
“There are a lot of stories from that, you know, if we didn’t know their names, if we weren’t sure where their graves were, we wouldn’t have those stories,” Rachel DeRosier said.
DeRosier is the event coordinator at Manatee Village Historical Park, an organization that signs volunteers up to clean gravestones at the Manatee Burying Site.