Old City Cemetery Museum and Arboretum Announces it will Continue as an Official Location for 2025

Old City Cemetery Museum and Arboretum Announces it will Continue as an Official Location for the 2025 National Wreaths Across America Day
 
The cemetery will join the more than 4,900 participating locations across the country to Remember, Honor and Teach on Saturday, Dec. 13, 2025


COLUMBIA FALLS, Maine, and Lynchburg VA, (August 20, 2025) Friends of the Old City  in Lynchburg has once again joined in the yearlong mission to Remember, Honor, Teach, as an official location for 2025. This is the  year that the cemetery will participate in this national program.
 
Wreaths Across America started as a simple gesture of thanks that has grown into a national, yearlong movement of dedicated volunteers and communities coming together to not only remember the nation’s fallen and honor their service, but to teach the next generation about the value of freedom. This year, there will be more than 4,900 participating locations placing veterans’ wreaths on National Wreaths Across America Day – Saturday, Dec. 13, 2025 – with more than three million volunteers coming together.
 
The goal for Friends of the Old City Cemetery is to raise enough funds to place 2,475 sponsored veterans’ wreaths on the headstones of all the local heroes laid to rest there, to ensure that the individuals who served to protect the freedoms of our country never be forgotten and to bring the community together in patriotic commemoration. The closest the Old City Cemetery ever came to this goal was in 2023 with 2,000 wreaths placed.
 
“We are forever grateful for the thousands of supporters who dedicate their time, energy and resources to fulfilling our mission all year long,” said Karen Worcester, executive director, Wreaths Across America. “These individuals and their communities know the value of remembering the fallen, honoring those who currently serve and teaching the next generation about the sacrifices made for our freedom every day, and because of their continued support, Wreaths Across America continues to grow and touch new people each year.”
 
Those interested in volunteering for Wreaths Across America or sponsoring a wreath for Old City Cemetery and Arboretum are invited to visit www.wreathsacrossamerica.org/VA1076 to learn more. National Wreaths Across America Day is a free community event open to all people.
 
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About Wreaths Across America
Wreaths Across America is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization founded to continue and expand the annual wreath-laying ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery begun by Maine businessman Morrill Worcester in 1992. The organization’s yearlong mission – Remember, Honor, Teach – is carried out in part each year by coordinating wreath-laying ceremonies in December at Arlington, as well as at thousands of veterans’ cemeteries and other locations in all 50 states and beyond.
 
All Wreaths Across America Day events are non-political/religious events, open to all people. For more information, to donate or to sign up to volunteer, contact the OCC about day of participation to sponsor wreaths please visit www.WreathsAcrossAmerica.org/VA1076
 
 
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Rachael Wilson
(207) 230-4599
rwilson@wreathsacrossamerica.org
 
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