This 2003 aerial image of the Lane Street Project cemeteries shows how much changed in the 17 years before we began our cleanups.

(1) Vick Cemetery; (2) Odd Fellows Cemetery; (3) Rountree Cemetery.

Vick Cemetery. (1) The central monument (before the pad was bricked?) and the one odd tree alongside; (2) the little white dash is the one concrete vault top remaining in the cemetery; (3) no walkway! I’d always wondered why it matched up with the monument’s pad so poorly. It was installed years later!

Odd Fellows Cemetery. (1) Maybe if someone had done a proper survey with map of the property lines, the Vick Cemetery parking lot and driveway apron wouldn’t sprawl across the line into Odd Fellows; (2) fairly heavy overgrowth in this corner; (3) the Della and Dave Barnes headstones; (4) the old entrance; (5) the interior was fairly open in 2003 and in January 2024 was cleared anew.

Rountree Cemetery: Surprisingly open twenty years ago. There is little sunlight anywhere within Rountree now.

Images courtesy of Wilson County NC GIS website.