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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
TCPalm business reporter Jack Randall visited historic cemeteries on the Treasure Coast. He researched their history, documented their condition and paid his respects. Finding the abandoned Eden ...
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 ...
“For He Himself knows our frame; He is mindful that we are but dust. As for man, his days are like grass. As a flower of the field, he flourishes. When the wind has passed over it, it is no more, and ...
For years, Martha James wondered what mysteries were hidden in the Mitchell-Mauermann Cemetery. The long-abandoned cemetery on San Antonio's far South Side was established by her family sometime ...
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 ...
Knoxville — Cemeteries sit in decay throughout East Tennessee. You may know of some yourself. Historian Robert McGinnis estimates there are perhaps 780 graveyards in Knox County alone, with about 150 ...