Officials have been working for months to develop the Berry Hill Mega Park in Pittsylvania County. but now, it looks as though they'll have an extra project to work on. A resident has discovered a large slave cemetary on the property. They believe there are thousands of graves there, some dating back to 1898. Read More … [Read more...]
Atlanta lawsuit spotlights obscure black community
September 22, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Ed Daugherty remembers passing the graveled streets, modest homes and painted white church in Macedonia Park as a teenager on his way to school. Now 82, Daugherty is among the dwindling number of Atlantans who still remember the black enclave once nestled in the city's affluent Buckhead neighborhood. The community embodied a bygone but common custom here, typical of many clusters of convenience in the South where black workers lived close to the white families for whom they worked. Read more: Miami Herald … [Read more...]
Hampton is birthplace of black America, history enthusiast says
September 22, 2009 By Leave a Comment
When you can reach as far back into the past as the city of Hampton, chances are that at least some people will sit up and take notice. But even in this old seaport town, not enough people are paying attention to the unsurpassed collection of nationally prominent African-American milestones that have taken place here over the past 400 years, says Hampton resident Calvin Pearson. Read more: Daily Press … [Read more...]
Paying tribute to a Masonic icon
September 12, 2009 By Leave a Comment
The Prince Hall Memorial will not bear its namesake’s image when it is erected on Cambridge Common this November. No pictures of the indentured servant-turned-abolitionist can be found, nor much description on which to base an artist’s depiction. And while Prince Hall’s contributions to American history and the antislavery movement are familiar to historians and members of the Masonic lodge he created, he is not a well-known figure. Read more: The Boston Globe … [Read more...]
Granddaughter seeks to save old Ga. black cemetery
September 10, 2009 By Leave a Comment
A historic cemetery that is the last trace of an African-American community founded by former slaves is at the center of a legal battle between a developer and a woman whose grandparents and uncle are buried there. A lawsuit has been filed in Fulton County Superior Court on behalf of Elon Butts Osby seeking to stop Brandon Marshall from removing Mt. Olive Cemetery, which was once part of Macedonia Park. The area was a black community first settled by former slaves before becoming a formal subdivision in the 1920s. Read more: South Florida Times … [Read more...]
Mystery Florida Graveyard May Be Historical Bahamian Cemetery
September 6, 2009 By Leave a Comment
An unmarked cemetery found in South Florida is believed to be the burial site of over 500 Bahamians, Florida officials say. Florida historian, Larry Wiggins, says he believes the site is of the Lemon City Cemetery, a cemetery for settlers from the Bahamas who went to South Florida in the early 1900s to tend to wealthy whites, and to help build Florida’s most cosmopolitan city. Teresita DeVeaux, a 100-year-old woman who was born in the Bahamas and moved to Miami as a child during the early 1900s, told international media that she remembered that a young man named Theophilus Clark was … [Read more...]
Recent Comments