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Introduction
Introduction
To celebrate the 150th Birthday of Fayetteville, our Girl Scouts decided to develop an activity patch that would help to preserve Fayetteville, remember its past, and keep it beautiful for the future. No where in Fayetteville can its history be “witnessed” a second time so closely as in the Fayetteville Cemetery. Currently, or community is being asked to “save the wall” of the Cemetery. We would like to do our part. We hope that through the earning of this patch we would not only educate our Girl Scouts, but also publicize the cemetery as a historical resource. a point of aesthetic beauty, a wonder of nature, a place to reflect, and about all, a place to remember.
This patch program has been updated as of 11/28/05.
Instructions
Instructions
All Girls must locate the crabapple tree (front left section as you look at the cemetery from the road-the tree leans to the right.) Look for the plaque, how does it apply to you?
Daisies: locate tree as explained above and complete 3 extra activities (2, 7, & 14 are suggested.)
Brownies: Locate the tree as explained above and pick 6 additional activities.
Juniors: Locate the tree as explained above and pick 8 activities.
Cadettes: Locate the tree as explained above and pick 10 activities.
Seniors: Locate the tree as explained above and pick 12 activities.
Activities
Activities
1. Read about the history of cemeteries. Besides being places for burial, what other purposes did they serve? Name some famous cemeteries. (Social customs, world history)
2. Take the Fayetteville Cemetery Walk. The free brochure is located in the Fayetteville Library – Tour #4. Are you able to list 10 names well known in Fayetteville, that are found in the cemetery? (local history, locating by map)
3. Who is the famous woman who fought for the right of women to vote (suffragette) who is buried in F.C.? Can you name 3 of her accomplishments? (Women’s history)
4. There is a Fayetteville farmer who is buried in F.C. who is known for having imported a special type of sheep from Iran, and was the first to do so. Who was he? What was so special about his barn? (history of agriculture.)
5. The Civil War was a very bitter battle. When was it fought? Are you able to locate the Civil War Monument? How many men from this area fought in the Civil War? How many deserted? What were some reasons for deserting? How many men died in battle? How many died from disease? What was the casualty rate? What did men receive for fighting in the War? What is the name of the Black Union Soldier buried in the F.C? What is a Copperhead? (history)
6. Find out how old people lived to be in the late 19th Century by subtracting the birthdate from the death date and averaging the numbers. Take a good sample. In 1900, what was the average life expectancy? What is it now? Give 3 reasons why people live on the average, longer today than they did 100 years ago. (Statistics, history of medicine)
7. Have a picnic in the cemetery in a clearing. as families did in the 1800’s. What refreshments would you have brought 100 years ago? What would they be packaged in? How would you get to and from the cemetery? What would you wear? (history of food, dress, and transportation)
8. When were the walls of the cemetery built? What are they made of? Who was the mason? (geology)
9. What quotations are you able to find on the gravestones? Which do you find interesting and why? (poetry)
10. People may be honored for the roles they served in the community. What professions are honored in the cemetery and why? (social customs)
11. We in the Northeast U.S. honor our dead by cemeteries. In other cultures around the world, how do they accomplish the same task? i.e., Ancient Egyptians, Native Americans, Early inhabitants of Rome and Paris, Sailors at Sea, Statesmen and Poets of England. (cultural differences)
12. Find the oldest grave. The largest and smallest stones. Locate family stones grouped together. (noting differences.)
13. How old is the Fayetteville Cemetery? When was it formally dedicated? How large is it? (history)
14. Do a grave rubbing. Why did you pick a particular stone? Is there art in a cemetery? What types of art? (art appreciation)
15. Can you name the different types of stone that are used as monuments? Do you see some types of stone that last better than others? What things effect the aging of stone? What man-made pollution can effect stone? (geology, weather, pollution.)
16. Who originally owned the land that is now the cemetery? How did the land pass down to its present use? Will it always be a cemetery? (history, preservation)
17. There are over 40 different types of trees and shrubs in Fayetteville Cemetery. Can you identify 10? How old are the trees? Describe the difference between coniferous and deciduous. What trees are “native”? What tree came from the Orient? (biology)
18. David Collin was an early pioneer of Fayetteville. Mr. Collin had four daughters who married and are still remembered by their descendents and area points of interest that bear their names. Can you name these four names and also what is named for them?
19. Certain monuments have unusual carvings. Do you know the significance of a small bird atop a stone? A lamb, an urn, a lamp, a cut tree, and anchor? other symbols?
20. Name three things you can do as a Girl Scout to keep the Fayetteville Cemetery a special place.
21. Locate the geocache that is hidden in the F.C. Go to www.geocaching.com search by Fayetteville zip code: 13066 and the name of this traditional cache is: “Cache” Cow. Print out the cache page and bring your GPS unit to the cemetery. You may want to bring a trinket to trade when you locate the cache. Don’t forget to sign the log book. What year was this cache hidden?
Additional reading:
A Walking Tour of the Fayetteville Cemetery People and Places – Fayetteville, Manlius, Minoa and Neighbors Vol. 1 and 2 (1986, 1991) Found in the Fayetteville Free Library.
Echoes of Our Past: The Historic Landscapes of Syracuse’s Cemeteries (#6) Onondaga Historical Association free at OHA Museum.
Special thanks to:
Mr. Charles Moore, Cemetery Superintendent
Mrs. Ann Moore, Past Head of Fayetteville Free Library
Cindy Corbett, FM Service Unit Manager, CNY Girl Scout Council (when patch was developed)
Peg Gutowski, Council Services Director, CNY Girl Scout Council.
Warren Petty, retired science teacher, horticulturist, a specialist in the observation of trees and shrubs who gives nature walks through the Fayetteville Cemetery, at special events.
The Fayetteville Cemetery Patch may be purchased at the FM Service Unit Meetings. Contact Service Unit manager.
Answer key:
Answer key:
Each leader should encourage her Girl Scouts to seek out the information asked in each question. To aid the leader, this brief answer guide is provided. It is by no means definitive.
1. Early man buried his dead in the ground with special artifacts and in certain positions. The Egyptians built pyramids to inter the Pharaohs. The Native Americans of the Southwest placed their dead on elevated cots. Large ancient cities often buried their dead under the city (the Catacombs of Rome, The City of the Dead under Paris.) Cemeteries were and are places for socializing with the living, and honoring the dead. Famous Cemeteries: Arlington Cemetery, Flanders Field, Normandy, St. Louis Cemetery in New Orleans; Westminster Abbey, London; Pierre LaChasse in Paris, among many other.
3. Matilda Joslyn Gage, first woman voter in Fayetteville, woman suffrage leader, women’s rights activist, main source of information for the three volume “history of Woman Suffrage,” invited speaker at three national political conventions. . .
4. Lamson Dawley, Karakul Sheep, 1st steel framed barn in the U.S.
5. 1860-1864, Approximately 500 men fought. Many men ended up deserting because they were needed back home due to debt, disease, illness, or compelling family problems. Search the Civil War monument for the number of deaths from battle and illness. Illness claimed many more than battle. Soldiers died from measles, pneumonia, exposure, dysentery, malnutrition, and other ills. Men who fought in the Civil War did not receive anything but Honor for having fought. This was in contrast to the Revolutionary War I which soldiers were given land in exchange for fighting. A Copperhead is a Southern Sympathizer.
6. The average age in 1900 was 42.* People live longer due to sanitation, nutrition, antibiotics, and immunizations.
* average life expectancy ( 1 in 3 children died before age 5) in 1900.
7. Remember not to bring anything to your picnic that would not be there in the 1800’s: plastic, soda in a can, McDonald’s Happy Meals did not exist.
8. The walls were built between 1904-1910 by Ed Chapman. The stones are made of glacial residue called “hard heads.”
10. The cemetery honors individuals who have given service to the community Veterans of wars, firefighters, policemen & women, political figures (mayors, statesmen) clergy, etc.
13. The Fayetteville Cemetery was first used a s a burial ground in 2820, but it was officially dedicated as a cemetery in 1864.
16. Native Americans. It then became part of a land grant given to David Colin for his military service in the Revolutionary War. Unfortunately, cemeteries are not always well taken care of. If neglect continues, the land may be reconverted to other uses, which is, among other things, a historical tragedy.
17. There are many sugar maples and black maple trees in the Fayetteville Cemetery. There are also junipers, white oak, black cherry, weeping willow, white birches, red oak, Norway spruce, tamarack trees, Kermode blue spruce, red spruce. Many trees are about 150 years old. There is an oak that is four feet in diameter. Some trees are native and others are “cultivars” that is, they come from nursery stock. One of the most unusual trees is a Ginkgo biloba which comes from eastern China and has fan shaped leaves:
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