America 250-Ohio Presents the Revolutionary War Veteran Graves Project
Over the past year, Public Researchers have traveled across Ohio. Walking cemeteries, exploring back roads, and documenting the gravesites of Revolutionary War veterans. In that time, more than 570 volunteers helped record over 4,300 gravesites and 1,400 cemeteries, capturing over 8,000 photographs in the process.
This past Memorial Day marked the close of formal gravesite and cemetery data collection for the Revolutionary War Veteran Graves Project.
Since then, our partners at Terracon Consultants, Inc., have been carefully reviewing submissions, verifying photographs, merging duplicate entries, and standardizing records to ensure the dataset is as accurate, consistent, and useful as possible.
Today, we’re excited to share the results of that work with the launch of several new ways to explore the completed dataset.
Project Dashboard
A revamped version of the Live Results Dashboard you know and love, now featuring updated data.
We've also included some exciting new features:
More accurate results with an improved county filtering system.
Duplicate grave marker records are hidden from view.
Grave marker photographs can now be explored within individual veteran records.
Aerial imagery appears when zoomed to the cemetery-level.
Cemeteries display at the county scale, creating a clearer and less cluttered statewide view.
These improvements make it easier than ever to explore Ohio’s Revolutionary War veteran burial sites at any scale.
The StoryMap brings the project together in one place, sharing its origins, highlighting notable veterans, and exploring what the data reveals about Ohio’s early settlement and Revolutionary War legacy.
The new Gallery Wall showcases the more than 8,000 photographs collected during the project and offers a visually rich way to explore the project’s growing photographic archive, allowing users to browse and reflect on thousands of grave markers preserved through this effort.
While formal data collection has concluded, the work is far from over.
The Ohio History Connection and Ohio's State Historic Preservation Office remain committed to stewarding the project data and supporting ongoing public contributions.
