battle of brooklyn – Grassroots Mapping http://grassrootsmapping.org Stories of community based mapping projects Sun, 01 Apr 2018 14:24:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.5 Raising the Dead: Grassroots Mappers Help Look For America’s First Veterans Cemetery. http://publiclaboratory.org/notes/eymund-diegel/11-9-2012/raising-dead-grassroots-mappers-help-look-america-s-first-veterans-cem http://publiclaboratory.org/notes/eymund-diegel/11-9-2012/raising-dead-grassroots-mappers-help-look-america-s-first-veterans-cem#respond Fri, 09 Nov 2012 05:42:49 +0000 http://grassrootsmapping.org/?guid=c1fae882824ffb48fc9aafb1d1335cd4 An ordinary looking concrete slab in Brooklyn - what story does it really tell ? "To balloon or to kite, that is the question.." Just after Independence Day 2012, the “Over My Dead Body” bal...]]>

An ordinary looking concrete slab in Brooklyn - what story does it really tell ?

"To balloon or to kite, that is the question.."

Just after Independence Day 2012, the “Over My Dead Body” balloon mapping expedition set out to capture high resolution aerials of a very special grave site: America’s first ever military cemetery.

Their site of interest was none other than the fabled Marylander Burial Ground, rumored location of the first soldiers ever to die as Americans in the 1776 War of Independence.

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