The Black Cemetery Network, formed in the Tampa Bay area, hosted its first national conference in St. Petersburg. Founder ...
Are you the type who enjoys exploring abandoned places and ruins in and around the Land of Lincoln? Do you enjoy giving yourself a good fright? There is one place that we think may just offer the ...
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We found a slave cemetery — but that wasn't the real surprise

Deep in the woods lies a forgotten plantation-era slave cemetery, where generations of enslaved people and their descendants were buried. While exploring the site, researchers also uncovered evidence ...
Across the Southeast, hidden cemeteries hold the stories of people long forgotten. Overgrown graves and fading headstones mark lives that history barely remembers. Local legends surround many of these ...
Just inside Atlanta’s northern I-285 perimeter sits an untouched cemetery — larger than the city’s Oakland Cemetery, and home to thousands of graves lost to time. The expansive 70-acre property is ...
MONTVILLE, Conn.—Almost 125 years ago, 15-month-old Emma Wheeler was laid to rest within sight of her family’s church near a stone wall in a New England cemetery. The church is now long gone, and the ...
Carrie Louise Pinson moved back to Memphis from Atlanta two years ago. When she visited her loved ones’ graves at Zion Hill ...
This is the third part of a four-part series on the old, often-overlooked cemeteries in the Coulterville area of Sale Creek. The first two, Pat Thomas and Martin, along with the Miller-Nelson ...
WILMINGTON, NC (WWAY-TV) — A Wilmington cemetery has been resurrected with the help of one UNCW graduate student. Hidden at the end of a dead-end road near Oleander Drive sits what was once an ...