Association
The cemetery is administered by the Association for the Preservation of Historic Congressional Cemetery (APHCC), which is a non-profit corporation headed by a 15 member Board of Directors. The Association has five full-time employees and over 500 volunteers. The APHCC named Paul K. Williams President in July 2012. Its mission is:
To serve the community as an active burial ground and conserve the physical artifacts, buildings, and infrastructure of the cemetery; to celebrate the American heritage represented by those interred here; to restore and sustain the landscape, to protect the Anacostia River watershed, and to manage the grounds as an accessible community resource.
In 2009, the Association retained the Oehme, van Sweden & Associates to develop a new landscape plan.
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