In the course of construction work in 2013, the remains of 36 individuals of African descent were uncovered in the heart of downtown Charleston, South Carolina. They had lain hidden for some 200 years ...
Black burial sites in Charleston are often threatened by development. A new tool helps protect them.
In the Neck Area of the peninsula, a small piece of grassy land is nearly hidden among a couple of storage unit centers and encroaching buildings. Long before the surrounding development came to ...
CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - State preservation leaders say a project that documented and mapped 200 Black burial sites is a big moment for understanding the city’s past and planning its future. Teams ...
An EDC map of the project site. On Wednesday, the Economic Development Corporation (EDC) and the Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) committed to ensuring that at least 50 percent ...
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Hochul nominates Kingston’s Pine Street African Burial Ground to National Register of Historic Places
KINGSTON, N.Y. — Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Friday that she has nominated the Pine Street African Burial Ground at 157 Pine St. in Midtown for nomination to the National Register of Historic Places. ...
If and when future African American burial grounds are uncovered in New Hampshire, state law now explicitly outlines how their discovery should be handled. Senate Bill 11, signed into law this month ...
CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) — The Anson Street African Burial Memorial is set to honor 36 ancestors with a permanent memorial dedication on Sunday. The memorial process has been over 10 years in the ...
Community members and faith leaders gather for a reinterment ceremony of 36 African ancestors in Charleston, S.C., on May 4, 2019. (Photo by Raquel Fleskes, Ph.D., anthropology professor at Dartmouth ...
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