VIDEO: High school interns uncover history at Green-Wood Cemetery
Ana C. Pierce was 25 years, six months and 15 days old when she died on Feb. 20, 1871 of albuminuria, a sickness that starves the bloodstream of protein and leads to kidney disease.
Pierce has since been buried in Green-Wood Cemetery. But for more than a century, her gravestone was sunken below ground, until this summer when Arthur Cambridge, 16, uncovered it and pieced her story together.
Cambridge is part of a group of eight interns from Williamsburg High School for Architecture and Design and the Mather Building Arts and Craftsmanship High School who, over five weeks, learned the art of restoration and preservation in Green-Wood Cemetery as part of the Career and Technological Education internship program.