Anyone who visits the Chariton Cemetery this weekend is welcome to stop at the shelter house for a cookie, help in locating a grave --- or just to take a closer look at this unique little building located in the heart of the grounds since 1929.
Official hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. today, Sunday and Monday --- but volunteers probably will be there earlier. The annual help and hospitality event is a joint project of the Lucas County Genealogical Society, which will be staffing the shelter house mornings, and the Chariton Historic Preservation Commission, which will take over afternoons.
Genealogical Society volunteers will be bringing with them extensive cemetery records, so it will be a good time to ask questions.
The shelter house was one of many improvements made to the cemetery after its 1924 purchase by the city from the Stanton family and is a contributing structure to the Chariton Cemetery National Historic District, added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2009-10.
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