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Ground Penetrating Radar Uncovers Black History at Oakwood Cemetery

A new land survey, funded by a grant from the North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office, hopes to identify unmarked graves in the cemetery's historically Black section.

June 9, 2020
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KEYWORDS Ground penetrating radar (GPR) / Land surveying
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At Oakwood Cemetery in High Point, North Carolina, a new land survey using ground penetrating radar hopes to reveal scores of unmarked graves in the cemetery's historically Black burial section.

Then called the "colored section," local historians estimate that some hundreds of unmarked and unaccounted for graves could date back to the cemetery's beginnings in 1859, as reported by the High Point Enterprise. More from the Enterprise: 

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