Tours started Saturday with Mt. Elliott Cemetery

After a twelvemonth disconnected due to the fact that of COVID-19, Preservation Detroit is offering day walking tours of the creation and architecture recovered successful the city's last resting places.

After a twelvemonth disconnected due to the fact that of COVID-19, Preservation Detroit is offering day walking tours of the creation and architecture recovered successful the city's last resting places. (Copyright 2019 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

DETROIT – Just successful clip for the haunting month: Detroit cemetery tours.

After a twelvemonth disconnected due to the fact that of COVID-19, Preservation Detroit is offering day walking tours of the creation and architecture recovered successful the city's last resting places.

The cemeteries are the past stops for galore historical figures and celebrities, specified arsenic Rosa Parks, Aretha Franklin, and Bernhard Stroh. Elmwood Cemetery has veterans of each warfare since the Revolutionary War.

The tours started Saturday with Mt. Elliott Cemetery. On the adjacent 4 Saturdays, tours volition beryllium conducted astatine Elmwood, Mt. Elliott again, Mt. Olivet and Woodlawn.

The outgo is $20 for Preservation Detroit members and $25 for others. Money raised from the tours goes to Preservation Detroit's efforts to sphere the city’s history.

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