Walked through an old cemetery in Portland last night and it hit me way later

All the birth and death dates on the headstones from the 1800s showed people dying in their 30s and 40s, but the stones looked brand new like they just got placed last year. That means those families probably had to replace or re-carve the same markers every few decades because the weather kept wearing them down. Has anyone else noticed how much maintenance cemeteries actually take?

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wilson.claire10d ago

Nah, those old stones are marble, and it's usually acid rain doing the damage, not weather.

miawalker10d ago

Heard my buddy lost his whole patio table to acid rain damage last year.