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From: "Sue Silver" <>
Subject: Planters House Cemetery, El Dorado County
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2004 10:57:21 -0700


Greetings:

I have posted a new endangered cemetery report to the California Saving
Graves website for the Planters House Cemetery in Shingle Springs, El Dorado
County. You may view the report at:

http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ca/state/Planters_House_Cemetery_Report.htm

A construction application is being processed for the parcel adjacent to
this little cemetery. The applicant's plan shows the applicant's property
line taking in one of the family plots of the cemetery that was excepted in
a 1929 deed and does NOT belong to the applicant. The 1929 deed also
provided for an easement to and from the cemetery and the applicant's plan
makes no provision for that access.

I would like to ask you to email Supervisor Charlie Paine to ask him to help
ensure this application is not approved without providing for an accurate
depiction of the applicant's property in relation to the cemetery and to
ensure that access remains available.

There is a sample email text listed below for your use. I hope you will
agree that we need to protect our historic cemeteries and access to them and
will email Supervisor Paine accordingly.

Thank you,

Sue Silver, State Coordinator
California Saving Graves

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Sample Email and Letter Text to :

Subject: Planters House Cemetery, Shingle Springs (DR04-0010-Williams)

Honorable Charlie Paine
District 4 Supervisor
El Dorado County
330 Fair Lane
Placerville, CA 95667

Dear Supervisor Paine:

I have learned that there have been problems in the past with construction
near this historic cemetery in your county and that a new application for
construction near the cemetery has been submitted. I believe that historic
cemeteries should be respected and protected as historical and cultural
resources of our state's past.

Please protect the cemetery and access to it so that future Californians may
pay their respects to the California pioneers buried there.

Please help ensure that the present project application is processed in a
manner that helps to ensure the preservation and protection of this early
cemetery.

Sincerely,

[Your name, address and email address.]


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