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The city of Danville: How a once-lively community lost its chance to prosper and became a ghost town

The city of Danville: How a once-lively community lost its chance to prosper and became a ghost town

Must Reads: Border fence threatens family burial ground — and a slice of African American history

When Ramiro Ramirez was a boy, his grandmother would bring him to visit the family cemeteries tucked amid vegetable and sugarcane fields here just north of the Rio Grande.

Legislation would create database for African-American cemeteries

If enacted, recently proposed legislation in Congress would create a national voluntary database to identify African-American burial grounds.

JHHS students to help raise money to mark Davey Jackson's grave

JACKSON HOLE, WYO – Students of Jackson Hole High School are endeavoring on a project to bring a bit more posthumous notoriety to the legendary Davey Jackson. Jackson Hole derives its name from the...

DAR appeals for funds to restore vandalized cemetery, honors locals

HENDERSON, Ky. - The local DAR chapter is still trying to gather funds to restore a historic cemetery that was vandalized last year.

Goffstown woman works to help restore Jewish cemetery

In hopes of fulfilling her long-held dream to participate in international community service, Vivianne Schill is raising money for a trip to Poland where she'll...

Lost to time: Overgrown Durham cemetery holds centuries of history

A plot of land surrounded by houses in Durham is the location of more than 1,500 burials--most of them unmarked and lost to time.

The Hands-on Effort to Save Richmond's Evergreen Cemetery

Martin Luther King Day is a national day of service and for the past few years volunteers have worked alongside the descendants of those buried in a…

Mount Moriah cemetery could become nature sanctuary

Founded in 1855, the cemetery is the resting place of  Civil War soldiers, a former Philadelphia mayor, and many other city notables of a previous era.

Tilton devoted to family history preservation

Beginning her day before dawn, the spry, wide-eyed Claudiann Tilton makes her way to Earthly Treasures Thrift Store.

The abandoned cemetery that came back to life in Gatineau