Anybody who owns a burial plot at Arlington Cemetery has until Aug. 31 to make sure it isn’t sold to somebody else.
The deadline comes as the city gets ready to return the cemetery to full operations. The city council voted unanimously to approve new rules necessary to reopen.
Some of the city’s most influential historical family names are found in Arlington Cemetery, like Collins (the family that drilled a once-famous mineral well) and Ditto (the first administrator of Arlington Memorial Hospital). Now, after three decades in legal limbo, the city will start selling new plots soon…