Cambridge

Cambridge's Old Burying Ground is the final resting place of its earliest Colonial era settlers, enslaved persons, revolutionary war soldiers, and Harvard students and presidents. It is a rare window into the landscapes of Colonial New England.  Since the early 2000s, Harvard College students have used the Old Burying Ground as a laboratory for understanding how style changes through time by observing the evolution of gravestone iconography.  Since 2021, a Harvard team has been studying the legacy of slavery in the cemetery and beyond.

A major component of the project is the mapping and documentation of the burial monuments, using UAV photogrammetry and 3D visualization.