The mission of the Friends of Silverbrook Cemetery, working with the City Government, is to promote and restore Silverbrook Cemetery to its once proud heritage.
Work Sessions
In 2007 we restored over 60 stones and monuments and cleaned over 170 stones. We appreciate the over 200 man-hours put in, not just for the restoration of the stones, but for the effort on the new fence along Main St. and the fence repair on Cherry St. We meet at the storage vault. The work sessions are the 1st and 3rd Saturdays each month from 9 a.m. to noon, April through October. If you like to paint, we will have painting supplies and latex gloves here. Bring something comfortable to sit on. Fence repair and replacement, painting, stone restoration and photography are some of the things are that dearly needed. Below are our Saturday dates. These have been so well attended that we are considering adding Wednesday sessions as well this summer. Please check back for updates! | April 5 & 19 | | May 3 & 17 | | June 7& 21 | | July 5 & 19 | | August 2 & 16 | | September 6 & 20 | | October 4 |
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Upcoming Events
Fall Walking Tour set for October 4 Our fall walking tour is scheduled for October 4 this year. Click here to read more about last year's tour.
Monthly Meetings
Featured Presenter: Elaine Metzger, President, Four Flags Garden ClubThursday, July 17th, Elaine Metzger, President of the Four Flags Garden Club, will give a power point presentation on John Gipner, the gardener at the Niles Train Station, who brought fame to our community years ago with his floral displays. Mr. Gipner and his family are buried in Silverbrook Cemetery This is the regular monthly meeting of Friends of Silverbrook, 7pm at the Niles Law Enforcement Center. Come and enjoy a little local history!
The Friends of Silverbrook Cemetery meet the third Thursday each month at 7 p.m. at the Niles Law Enforcement Center, located at Main St and Silverbrook Ave. In addition to discussing progress made with our restoration and education projects, we feature a Guest Speaker. Past speakers have given talks about the history of Niles, gravestone restoration, and biographies of leading citizens. Many of our members also have interests in genealogy and local history. Members, nonmembers, and guests are always welcome to attend at no cost. Scheduled meetings for the rest of this year: | July 17 | | August 21 | | September 18 | | October 16 | | November 20 | | December 18 |
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Written by Bob Nightingale
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Saturday, 21 June 2008 15:40 |
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If you haven't been here in a while, you might think you've landed someplace else! It was time for a change. This website had been maintained since its inception with Microsoft's Frontpage web editing software. Microsoft is dropping support for it this year. That forced us to look for something else. We wanted to make this website more of a research portal. There are binders packed full of really interesting history of the cemetery and the City of Niles. I found a Content Management System called Joomla. Besides having strong support for news articles, it's FREE! That means that more donations can go into the stone restoration efforts instead of buying software. When setting up the new website, I tried to use as much of the themes from the old one. The grave search and photo gallery are the same. I have a stack of updates to the grave search database. There are thousands of new photos in the gallery. Come back often! If you have any questions or suggestions, please write. Bob Nightingale,
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Last Updated ( Monday, 23 June 2008 14:12 )
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