Jimmy Sullivan, 15, is working to restore a neglected 19th-century cemetery in Orland Park as part of his Eagle Scout project.
An Orland Park teenager is uncovering the past to earn his Eagle Scout badge. He’s on a mission to bring a cemetery that dates back to the late 1800s, back to life. Jimmy Sullivan, 15, remembers the first time he spotted it. An old resting place, covered with overgrown trees, and crumbling headstones. "I remember asking my dad once, what was this," he said. "It's some of the first settlers of Orland Park , even the second mayor of Orland Park is buried here.
Just the state of the cemetery it's really sad, there are a lot of important people here," said Libby Paulson, the Heritage Sites Supervisor for the Village of Orland Park. "With these old cemeteries, the grave sites themselves were the family's responsibility to maintain and the markers too, and as families die off or move away, now there's no one to maintain them," said Brad Bettenhausen, the President Emeritus of the Tinley Park Historical Society.
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