NTCP is a Texas
Non-profit 501(c)(3)corporation that provides
restoration, preservation, and maintenance for historic
cemeteries that have been abandoned, neglected, or are
in need of care. This
is accomplished while providing volunteer
opportunities for "at-risk youth". We also work
with Cemetery Associations, Scouts, and other volunteers
needing our assistance in preserving historic
cemeteries.Coordination of these efforts is often aided
by other volunteer organizations interested in historic
cemeteries. Ongoing maintenance projects
include, Garvin, Horton, McAdams, Western
Heights, Cockrell, and Warner cemeteries. Past
projects completed include Carrollton Community or
Carrollton Black Cemetery, Cottonwood, Glover, Lisbon,
Mount Calvary, McCombs , Cannon, Moore's Chapel,
Wheatland, Mack M.Rodgers Headstone @ Butler Nelson
Cemetery, Pagetown, Pleasant Ridge, and Pleasant
Valley cemeteries. We have been invited back for more
headstone repairs at Pleasant Valley,
Graham-Argyle, Mount Calvary, Cannon,
Oakwood and Pleasant Ridge cemeteries. With our
communty's help more projects will be added. Check out
our upcoming events for new projects on stone
leveling and repair. Please remember that all
your donations are tax deductible. All donations can be
sent to the address below.
North
Texas Cemetery Preservation, PO Box 292742 Lewisville,
TX 75029-2742; phone: (972) 814-1679
Updates
If you know of an organization that can
help us or the company you work for or own can
provide donations or match the donations you collect to
send to our program, please do not hesitate to help.
Every bit helps. We would like to list your company as a
Friend of NTCP, along with your companies website and
contact information. Thank you in advance for your
support.
This spring we have returned to our 5
adopted cemeteries, and returned to Pleasant Valley,
Wheatland, Mt. Calvary, and Oakwood cemeteries to
complete more headstones.
Check out our services page for additional
services that we are now offering, including posting
your cemetery's special events. We are able to
provide more and more services every year.
Our
biggest service is headstone repair and leveling. We
have repaired and leveled over 750 headstones to
date.
We also provide pictures for those genealogist
that are in need of pictures of headstones. Send us an
emal with your request, and we will help in exchange for
a donation. Thank you to those of you that have already
done so.
Our ongoing projects are mowing and
maintaining historic cemeteries. We have had to clear a
great deal of brush to get some of these cemeteries to
this
point.
Click
on the service page to see all the new services we
provide. Levelling headstones seems to be our most
popular.
Click on our "NTCP in the
News" button to see what the community thinks of our
work.
Click on past projects to see work that
has been done. We have recently been asked to
complete more headstones at the Wheatland, Lisbon, and
Cannon Cemeteries.
Click on Black History Month for
information about the L.Butler Nelson Cemetery work that
has been complete along with some history.
We completed repair
and leveling on over 140 headstones at Oakwood
Cemetery in Denton, TX in cooperation with Denton City
Parks and Rec. Department. The Denton Record Chronicle
covered NTCP on their front page on November 6, 2006.
Click on NTCP in the News to get link to the
article.
We have finished the 1st
phase of headstone repairs and leveling at Moore's
Chapel Cemetery in Bonham, Fannin County, TX
Scout Troup 876 completed
an Eagle Scout Project at the Warner Cemetery. Click on
ongoing projects button, and then Warner Cemetery button
for more details.
The Pleasant Ridge Cemetery project was
filmed by HD News on May 12, 2006. Click on Pleasant
Ridge button for more.
The National and Global Youth
Service Day (click on youth service day button) was
front page of the Metro Section of the Dallas Morning
News on 04/22/2006.
Leveling and
repairing headstones is one of our major fundraisers. If
you have a cemetery or your loved one's headstone is in
need of straightening or repair, please do not hesitate
to call us at 972-814-1679 or email us at ntcp@northtexascemeterypreservation.org.
For a reference you may call Jim Foster, Past
President of Dallas County Pioneer Association @
214-969-0926.
Over 2200
volunteer hours have been completed on 23
historic cemeteries since 2003. That is over
$158,000 worth of labor hours. We a very proud of
our volunteers' work and thankful for
all their many hours work.
For the 2nd year
in a row, both NTCP and Executive Director Dan Fauver
received the Presidential Volunteer Service Awards while
attending the 22nd Anniversary State wide Volunteer
Conference held May, 2006.
Our
friends Ms. Francis James and Mr. Jim Foster
were presented with Lifetime Service awards for
over 4000 volunteer hours while
attending the Pleasant Valley Cemetery Project.
These awards came with a letters of appreciation from
the White House signed by President George Bush. Ms.
James serves on the Dallas County Landmark Commission,
Dallas County Pioneer's Association, and provides NTCP
with much of the valuable and historic information about
NTCP's projects. Jim Foster is the current president of
the Dallas County Pioneers Association and has written a
number of books about Dallas History and Dallas County
Historic Cemeteries.
Please visit the
New Dallas County Pioneers Association website located
at www.dallaspioneer.org.
