About 275 burial plots will be moved from the former Oak Hill Plantation to a new burial site about a mile away. Roughly 275 burial plots of the formerly enslaved and sharecroppers at Danville, Va.’s ...
The graves of hundreds of African American tenant farmers and their families are being moved in Virginia to make way for an ...
Archaeologists have already started exhuming the approximately 275 plots, and some of the remains of tenant ... Silence fell as they walked into the first cemetery. J.D. Adams, an Oak Hill descendant, ...
Roughly 275 burial plots of the formerly enslaved and ... whose great-great-great grandfather is buried at Oak Hill. The cemetery is being moved to make way for a battery production facility ...