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What it will take to move historic family cemetery to Alta Vista
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Alta Vista Cemetery in Gainesville will be the final resting place for a historic family cemetery that has been on private property in North Hall for nearly 60 years. - photo by Scott Rogers
Handle with care is perhaps one way to describe the task ahead for Southeastern Archeological Services of Athens. The company is overseeing the digging up of a 19th century Thompson family cemetery, containing graves of one of Hall County’s founding families, and then moving it from its current spot off Lake Lanier to Alta Vista Cemetery in Gainesville.