Memorials Inventory Project (MIP) Project Highlights (description)

The information shown in the document is as follows:

Under the heading "General":

1,010 Potential "memorial" object inventoried during MIP, 2002-2004.
834 Final number of memorials upon validation, ending January 2006.

Under the heading "Objects later re-categorized":

80 Artillery (mostly Civil War-era, i.e., inverted cannon)
38 Site features (i.e., bench, fountain, bridge)
22 Plaques (i.e., 19th century verse, Gettysburg Address, Orders)
17 Signage (i.e., identification, interpretation, memorial info)
11 Structures (i.e., carillon, entry archway)
6 Private headstones
2 Carillons as electronic equipment only

Under the heading "Other":

169 Congressional Cemetery cenotaphs (documented outside of MIP)
25 NCA cemetery sites contain NO monuments or memorials

Under the heading "Volunteers":

2,974 Individuals contacted NCA about volunteering
372 Individuals were assigned/completed prooject work
65 Individuals COULD NOT complete assignments
3,405 Hours of donated time resulted from the MIP (estimated)