Cemetery mapping project utilizing technology to preserve local heritage

  • Benton Smith of Sentry Mapping Services in Oxford, MS, logs in GPS coordinates and photographs a headstone as part of a mapping project at the Timber Lake Cemetery. Photo by Jon Flatland
    Benton Smith of Sentry Mapping Services in Oxford, MS, logs in GPS coordinates and photographs a headstone as part of a mapping project at the Timber Lake Cemetery. Photo by Jon Flatland
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    Benton Smith isn’t a historian, a museum director or even an antique dealer. Yet he spends hundreds of hours each year preserving local heritage in communities of all sizes across the United States. Smith is a technician for Sentry Mapping Services, an Oxford, MSbased company that specializes in using Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) and Global Positioning System (GPS) technology to p...

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