The famous Tombstone House of Petersburg. The building was constructed in 1934 from the bottom half of graves of Union soldiers in Poplar Lawn Cemetery. During the Great Depression, maintaining the cemetery and the headstones suffered because of a lack of funding. The city decided to cut the tombstones in half and lay the top halves, which were engraved with the soldiers' details, on the ground face up, to save money on mowing and maintenance. The materials of the 2,200 tombstones were then sold for $45 to Oswald Young, who used them to build his house. Thanks @Atlas Obscura for the details of this story! #tombstonehouse #gravestone #cemeterytok #cemeteryexploring #gravetok
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