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We have chosen for our logo, the “pot-bellied” rooster, as portrayed on an early New England gravestone.
The rooster or cock is associated, symbolically, with the qualities of
victory, courage, vigilance, and repentance.
Vigilance represents the Coalition’s watchfulness in guarding against the desecration of burial sites in Maryland and repentance expresses our sincere desire to right this wrong through public awareness and remedial justice.

The Coalition was formed in 1991 as a non-profit organization and is committed to the protection of human burial sites from unauthorized and unwarranted disturbance, by man or nature. The membership includes historians, genealogists, archaeologists, cultural preservationists, Native Americans, legislative members, and residents and nonresidents of Maryland who care about their heritage and ancestors.

 Coalition members appreciate the importance of human burial sites as sacred grounds, as irreplaceable cultural resources, and as sources of valuable genealogical data, often found nowhere else.  The Coalition recognizes that many human burial sites are established through the purchased right of sepulture, protected by the laws of Maryland, which passes on to the relative of the deceased, and which cannot lawfully be abridged by others at will.

 Most of us imagine human burial as a respectful and dignified laying to rest of a person who touched our lives and contributed to our culture.  In time, however, human burial sites, left unprotected, can fall victim to expediency and the impulsive exploitation by others who are seeking a short-term economic or personal goal.  The Coalition believes that the willful desecration or destruction of human burial sites is unacceptable in a civilized society.

Learn more about us by reading about our Objectives.

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