The 48 State Tour is a yearly event that aims to teach people how to restore cemetery gravestones.
The tour was started in 2020 by Jonathan Appell, a professional gravestone and monument restorer, with the goal of traveling to the 48 continental states and holding free events that teach attendees to clean, repair and reset monuments and gravestones.
The 48 State Tour teaches education in gravestone and monument cleaning, repair and conservation techniques.
Students sign up for an event held in a local city, then they are shown the appropriate tools to use on different types of stones and the proper cleaning techniques.
Students are also shown how to repair stones, use materials like color matching mortar and the correct types of epoxies on stones made of marble, granite and limestone..[4][5] Over the 5 years the tour has been in operation, it has visited sites in each of the 48 continental states at least twice.