Please join us for President Barker’s discussion on Historic University Cemeteries.

His wonderful watercolors of the Clemson campus, the Woodland Cemetery and proposed projects enhance the story being told about the past and the future of our historic cemetery with its many marked and unmarked graves. While the first known person buried on Cemetery Hill was in 1837, found in the archives was an index of fifty enslaved persons who are likely buried on the western slope.

During Walter Riggs’ presidency opportunities for faculty and staff burials on campus was initiated. Barker will also describe a twenty-acre park and plaza planned on campus that would provide a place for alumni to have a final resting place on campus.