This annual event brings history enthusiasts together in an effort to help keep our nation’s heritage not only preserved but pristine. Since 1996, the American Battlefield Trust has sponsored Park Day, an annual hands-on preservation event to help Civil War — and now Revolutionary War & War of 1812 — battlefields and historic sites take on maintenance projects large and small. Activities are chosen by each participating site to meet their own particular needs and can range from raking leaves and hauling trash to painting signs and building trails.
- some supplies are provided or participants can bring their own
- weeding
- raking
- mowing
- cleaning up trash
- pruning
- cleaning signs and markers
- clearing trails of downed tree branches.
- cleaning gravestones
