The North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) is committed to planning and implementing 24
projects that avoid, mitigate, or eliminate negative impacts to cultural and historical resources important 25
to North Carolina communities. RP2025-11 -“Cemetery Mapping”, the project team engaged state 26
officials, historic preservation experts, and local communities in a county-level case study (Edgecombe 27
County) to increase NCDOT’s abilities to acknowledge, protect, and preserve known and unmapped 28
burial sites, and to engage current community members in these efforts. Project results included 29
expanding mapping datasets for cemeteries and burial sites, researching and compiling common 30
characteristics of historic burial sites, designing and implementing a community engagement 31
methodology, and identifying relevant procedural and systemic factors that affect the preservation of NC 32
burial sites.
