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South Carolina Counties ______ Volunteer for a county
Full list of Saving Graves South Carolina County Preservation Sites

Endangered Cemeteries ______ Report an endangered cemetery

South Carolina Saving Graves Mailing List

For those of you who want to be kept informed but don't want to sign up for an internet mail list, we also have a snail mail version, please send your name and address to the following address:

South Carolina Saving Graves
8 Cedarvilla Drive
Rock Hill, SC 29730

South Carolina Cemetery Preservation Law - Please let us know about additional current or pending South Carolina cemetery protection laws.

• Title 39 Chapter 55 Cemeteries _____ Repealed
• Title 5 Chapter 39 Cemeteries And Cemetery Commissions
• Title 6 Chapter 1 General Provisions
  SECTION 6-1-35. 
  Preservation and protection of cemeteries. 
  Preservation and protection of cemeteries.
  (A) Counties and municipalities are authorized to preserve and protect any cemetery located within its jurisdiction which the county or municipality determines has been abandoned or is not being maintained and are further authorized to expend public funds and use county or municipal inmate labor, in the manner authorized by law, in connection with the cemetery.

  (B) As used in this section, the term "preserve and protect" means to keep safe from destruction, peril, or other adversity and may include the placement of signs, markers, fencing, or other appropriate features so as to identify the site as a cemetery and so as to aid in the preservation and protection of the abandoned cemetery.
   

• Title 16 Chapter 17 Section 600 - Offenses Against Public Policy
• Title 27 Chapter 43 Removal Of Abandoned Cemeteries
• Title 49 Chapter 9 Flooding Of Cemeteries Or Burial Grounds By Power Or Water Companies
• SCIAA Policy on Human Burial Remains  
  Read through the South Carolina Institute of Archeology and Anthropology's policy on the steps taken after finding human burials

South Carolina State Government - Add Link

South Carolina State Website South Carolina State Archives Directory of Historical Records Repositories in South Carolina South Carolina State and Local Government on the Net

South Carolina Law Enforcement - Add Link

• Law Enforcement Online - South Carolina

South Carolina Cemetery Index - Add Link

Cemetery Records Online - South Carolina  Cemetery Junction - South Carolina I Dream Of Genealogy Cemetery Records - South Carolina Tombstone Inscription State Page - South Carolina Pickens County Cemeteries Richland County Cemeteries

Cemetery Locating Services - Add Link

• The US GeoGen Project - South Carolina

Cemetery Preservation Groups - Add Link

• SC-CEMETERY
  A mailing list to discuss the formation of a cemetery preservation society for South Carolina. In addition, directions, history, and new discoveries of cemeteries in South Carolina will be discussed. You must be a subscriber to post to the list. To subscribe send the word "subscribe" (without the quotes) as the only text in the body of a message to sc-cemetery-l-request@rootsweb.com (mail mode) or sc-cemetery-d-request@rootsweb.com (digest mode).
• Carolina Cemetery Projects
  Dedicated to Preserving and Restoring our nations cemeteries with our main focus on North and South Carolina .
• Chicora Foundation, Inc.
• Cemetery Preservation and Restoration
• Preservation of South Carolina African-American Cemeteries
• Woodham Family Cemetery  
  Stokes Bridge Community,  Lee County

Other South Carolina Preservation Groups - Add Link

• South Carolina Historical Society