new projects
Last Friday I explored a bit of Collin County. In Dallas County the City of Dallas sprawls across most of the geographic area, with a few large suburban cities joined to it shoulder to shoulder. In Collin County there are dozens of small towns, not yet suburbs but not quite rural. I’ve been shooting water towers emblazoned with the towns’ names, hoping to build a web page to show them off and to improve my html coding skills. I’ve also been looking for a cemetery to adopt. After I built my Five Mile Cemetery page I remembered what a good feeling it was to transcribe the tombstones, knowing I was preserving a bit of history and thinking the work might be useful to genealogists. Folks in Collin County seem to be interested in preserving their historical roots, which is especially important since the county is growing so fast. Many of the cemeteries have already been latched onto by someone as a transcription project. I think I may have found “my” cemetery, though. It’s Rowlett Cemetery, which only appears on one of the several cemetery lists I’ve been looking at. I found a few photos of it but no transcriptions, so I think I will make it my own. Strangely enough, it isn’t located in Rowlett. It’s on the opposite side of the county at “four corners”, where the cities of McKinney, Allen, Frisco, and Plano meet. I think it’s located just within the city limit of Plano. There are some interesting headstones with icons I haven’t seen before so I think it’ll be a good project for me. This was one of the more picturesque scenes in the cemetery. There are only a few trees, and it was hot that day, so I didn’t get many good shots. This one was my favorite.
