Moonlight Cemetery and Secrets from the Grave Tours
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Elmwood Cemetery 501 Elmwood Ave, Columbia, South Carolina 29201
Historic Columbia’s popular Cemetery Tours series returns every second Thursday of the month through September. Grab your flashlight and tour one of Columbia’s oldest cemeteries and discover centuries of stories etched in stone on the markers and headstones found within Elmwood Cemetery’s acres of carefully planned grounds. The perfect after-work activity, Historic Columbia’s Cemetery Tours are an event the whole family can enjoy. Choose from two tour options: “Secrets from the Grave Tours” and “Moonlight Cemetery Tours.” Tickets for members are $8 for adults and $4 for youth, and tickets for nonmembers are $12 for adults and $6 for youth. To purchase tickets, visit historiccolumbia.org, email reservations@historiccolumbia.org or call (803) 252-1770, ext. 23.
• Secrets from the Grave Tours, 7:30 p.m. – Study the symbols found on many of the markers and headstones in the historic Elmwood Cemetery.
• Moonlight Cemetery Tours, 8 and 8:30 p.m. – Tour Elmwood Cemetery and discuss the lives, burials, cemetery plots and tombstones of families and prominent citizens from Columbia's 19th and 20th centuries.