Last Day Visiting Mr. King

Courtney is preparing to learn to use the GPS from Dr. Winemiller

  

Ryan prepares to begin sketching the grave markers. 

 

The face of the GPS which reads the points for George D. Shortride's headstone.

Dr. King's Headstone

April 17 was the last day we worked in the King Cemetery; we finished drawing out the tombstones and even had a visitor to show us how to work a Geoexplorer machine. The gravestones must be drawn so that we know for our records what they look like and all the measurements. Measurements must be taken for the heighth, width, and length. We even have to measure the distance the words are placed from the top and bottom of the headstones/footstones. The GPS records the latitude and longitude of a position of this cemetery using the GPS data collection. It measures the time it takes to reach from the satellite to the data collection to create a distance and then it'll create a geometry to the GPS which gives us the points. 

The gate into the Kng Cemetery, located at the University of Montevallo. Mr. King was a prominant man in Montevallo and donated his farm land to be turned into the university. His family burial plot is maintained by the University of Montevallo and houses his family graves.