An abandoned graveyard, which is also known as abandoned cemetery, is a graveyard that is no longer maintained.^[1] Graveyards may be abandoned for various reasons.^[2] Some reasons for abandonment of cemetery include such phenomena as; financial difficulty, natural disaster, unpleasant reputation and/or accessibility.^[3]

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According to one source, it is claimed that there are thousands of abandoned graveyards in the United States.^[2]

Locating and identifying individual grave in abandoned cemetery may be hard due to lithophytes^{[lower-alpha 1]} overgrowing on the tombstone markings. In some cases, it may be difficult because the tombstones end up vandalized.^[3]

One way of restoring abandoned graveyards is to completely relocate them to new place, such places may be; wildlife refuges, public parks or historic sites.^[3] That means relocating both the tombstone and the coffin.^{[clarification needed]} However, relocating grave is rather expensive, it can cost anywhere between 8,000$ to 20,000$, or in some cases even more.^[4]

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