Elkhorn summer restoration projects underway

The Elkhorn Landowners’ Association held its annual meeting on June 25 at the Elkhorn fire hall to discuss and start six projects to restore and maintain aspects of the historic townsite.

As part of the meeting, landowners helped with the restoration of the town cemetery. The Elkhorn Cemetery Board hopes to restore the Elkhorn Cemetery to its former condition, using a map from 1967 which identifies the graves in the cemetery. 

During the association meeting, landowners worked under the direction of Bruce Bell and his father Fred to measure the distance between known grave sites to verify the scale of the map. The board plans to elevate sunken headstones and add markers to graves without them.