The Loudoun Cemetery Conservancy is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to honoring the historic cemeteries and graves through public information, training, research, and preservation through provision of grants to eligible cemeteries for their restoration.
Our workshops and training programs prepare stewards in the unique aspects of caring for historic cemeteries.
Our grants support long-term sustainability through strategic planning for historic cemeteries.
We are committed to helping stewards and cemeteries connect with the information they need to succeed.
Interested in your ancestral history within Loudoun, or curious about historic cemeteries in general? Join us at Thomas Balch Library in Leesburg (see map below) and learn why cemetery preservation is important, how to research your ancestry as well as how to use the vast resources available at Thomas Balch Library.
Join us at New Jersualem Lutheran Church in Lovettsville for a hands-on learning experience with experts in the field of cemetery strategic planning, documentation, preservation, and cemetery landscaping.
Are you connected to a cemetery that you would like to become a trustee for? Join us at Thomas Balch Library in Leesburg and learn how to become a trustee.
Course Details: This is a one-day course from 9:30 A.M. to 4:00 P.M. Following the course, participants will be ready to undertake, under experienced supervision, a five-year work plan for the cemetery of interest. The main topics being covered during the course are: Why cemetery conservation is important, including a brief history of the New Jerusalem Lutheran Church cemetery. How
Efforts to better protect Loudoun’s historic burial grounds continue to advance with the Loudoun Cemetery Conservancy bringing additional resources to trustees and caretakers. The nonprofit’s annual meeting on Nov. 7 at Oatlands was attended by 50 people who learned about the importance of these cemeteries
Loudoun County has over two hundred heritage cemeteries including graves of African Americans enslaved and free, Veterans from the American Revolution, the War of 1812, the Civil War, as well as family cemeteries of the early residents of Loudoun County.
