As states across America prepare to celebrate 250 years as a country, one state is trying to find war heroes to commemorate them.
Historians believe around 7,000 Revolutionary War soldiers are buried throughout Ohio. After the American Revolution, thousands of soldiers were paid parcels of land for fighting in the war.
Millions of those acres were in what is now, Ohio. As thousands of veterans moved westward for a new beginning, many settled there.
"These veterans are some of our first Ohioans to come to the state," said Krista Horrocks, the project manager, historian and cemetery preservationist with the Ohio History Connection. Horrocks oversees the state's program, Revolutionary War Veterans Graves Project, partnered with America250-Ohio.
The project is seeking help from Ohio residents to locate the grave sites of Revolutionary War heroes.
"These guys, they survived, and they moved on, and they moved on and settled here in Ohio with their families," Horrocks said.
To date, the public has documented over Revolutionary War veteran graves and post it for the public. Horrocks hopes the end result will mean restored or new historical markers, or gravestones for these heroes that were once forgotten.
"The whole point of the project is to get really good, accurate data to the public so they can do the best for the veterans in their community," Horrocks told Fox News.