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 ![Cambridge old burying ground from the air](/sites/g/files/omnuum6996/files/jasonur/files/obg_dji_20230218124111_0216_v.jpg)

 

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](/cambridge) 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.