Cemetery Resource Protection Training (CRPT)- Wimauma

DATE: Apr 26th, 2025
TIME: 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM EDT
URL: Register here!
LOCATION:
First Prospect Missionary Baptist Church
6012 Edina St, Wimauma, FL 33598

Registration Required!

The Cemetery Resource Protection Training workshop focuses on cemetery care and protection. Participants explore cemeteries as historical resources while learning about laws that protect them, conserving headstone and markers, managing cemetery landscapes, and practicing hands-on headstone cleaning with D-2 Biological Solution. By the end of the course, participants are well-versed in issues surrounding basic protection of historic cemeteries and are encouraged to record a historic cemetery over the next year.

LOCATIONFirst Prospect Missionary Baptist Church

SCHEDULE:

8:30am- Registration opens, light breakfast will be graciously provided by Discover Wimauma, Inc.

9:00am-12:00pm- Morning session includes a series of short discussions on:

  • Cemeteries as cultural resources
  • Managing historic cemeteries
  • Laws that protect marked and unmarked burials
  • Recording historic cemeteries for the Florida Master Site File
  • And moreā€¦

12:00pm- Lunch will be at the church and is graciously provided by First Prospect Missionary Baptist Church, Ladies Auxiliary.

1:00pm-3:00pm- Afternoon session at First Prospect Missionary Baptist Cemetery and includes:

  • A site tour
  • Cemetery landscape and management discussion and questions
  • Cleaning headstones with D/2 biological solution

Participants should wear closed-toed shoes and dress comfortably for a morning inside and an afternoon outside. Light breakfast and lunch provided, please bring water and snacks for the afternoon.

Open to the public, but registration is required.

A $10 donation is suggested but not required. You may donate here: https://giving.usf.edu/online/gift/f/420088/