Treatment Guidance Treatment guidance provides recommendations for the preservation and repair of Columbia Cemetery. This guidance should be followed when undertaking design and planning for Columbia Cemetery or when proposing modifications to contributing features. Treatment guidance is presented according to six landscape characteristics – spatial organization and topography, circulation, structures, small-scale features, vegetation. Spatial Organization and Topography Columbia Cemetery's historic setting and spatial organization reflects its development along a grid-like burial plot arrangement and linear roadway system, separating the cemetery into four main sections (A,B,C, and D), and sections on the cemetery’s edge (sections E and F). The cemetery road system and topography reinforces its arrangement. The Cemetery's natural terrain and topographic fluctuations due to burials is important to its character. • Protect Columbia Cemetery's composition by preserving and repairing its characteristic topography, vegetation patterns, and setting. Circulation Columbia Cemetery’s circulation system is composed of this grid of soft-surface roads and informal pedestrian paths were originally designed and established in 1915 for vehicular traffic but are now primarily used today as pedestrian paths. • Protect Columbia Cemetery's soft surface roads. ○ Preserve the characteristic north-south and east-west oriented roads. ○ Repair and replace missing or damaged surface material with in-kind materials that match the original in color, texture, and pattern. • Continue the current practice of the soft-surface roads serving as pedestrian routes. • Provide accessible routes within Columbia Cemetery for an equitable experience for all users. Create designated accessible routes and seating areas, where appropriate and compatible with contributing features. Structures Original structures associated with Columbia Cemetery include Pioneer Gateway, stone wall, culverts, the Maintenance Shed, and New Anderson Ditch. • Protect contributing structures in original locations. ○ Preserve and repair extant features in-place. Small-Scale Features Original features that remain include fences and gates and grave markers (more than 3,200). • Protect and repair fences and gates in their original locations. • Allow new small-scale features where appropriate, such as benches. • Maintain contributing small-scale features through regular maintenance. • Continue to maintain and restore grave markers with a qualified conservator and with qualified volunteers.
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