Some 100 local scouts from the Vulcan District volunteered Jan. 8 to clean the historic Oxmoor Cemetery at Birmingham’s Red Mountain Park.
The event was part of a celebration commemorating 100 years of scouting.
Red Mountain Park, a 1,200-acre urban mountaintop park, will eventually include walking and biking trails, recreational and picnic areas and green space. When the park is completed, it will be one of the largest urban parks in the country.
Oxmoor Cemetery, dating back to the 1800s, contains graves of men and women who lived and worked in Birmingham’s mining and industrial communities.
The Vulcan District of Boy Scouts of America includes scouts from Homewood, Hoover, Vestavia Hills, Mountain Brook and the Southside and Redmont neighborhoods.
