Bibb County Commissioners will hear a plan to digitally map Rose Hill Cemetery on Tuesday morning.
Founded in 1840, Rose Hill is the oldest and largest cemetery in the county, and it holds some graves that don't have markings on them.
Lee Strozier is hoping to change that. He runs a company that uses ground penetrating radar to search underground without digging.
He found five unmarked graves in Andersonville, Ga., on Monday afternoon. For him, finding out where unknown people are buried is a way to honor their legacy.
"There's no marker, there's no rock, there's nothing to indicate that there was a burial here, but that is holy ground," he said, motioning toward an empty patch of grass. "That's a special place. A family came out here numerous times and tended this ground right here."
The ground penetrating radar looks for spaces underground where there isn't any dirt or rock, either because there's a casket there, or because a body decomposed and left an empty space.
Strozier hopes to map all 65 acres of Rose Hill Cemetery to find where bodies are already buried, but also to find where no bodies are buried, so the cemetery can sell a plot of land there.
Stephen Lawson, Macon-Bibb's Director of Parks and Beautification, surveyed an empty swath of land in the Oak Hill section of the cemetery on Monday.
"The problem is that we have this big open space where we know there's graves," he said, indicating that at one point the area was a slave burial ground.
He hopes they can identify where each grave in that area is so that they can construct a memorial.