In a cemetery on a back country road near Sacramento, three rows of granite gravestones bear the same inscription: Unknown, moved from Negro Hill Cemetery by the U.S. Government 1954.
All of the Black history that is woven throughout all of these sites was never expressed or interpreted, Anderson told me. We're going to be telling all those stories.
#mormon-island-cemetery #black-history #california-state-parks #gold-rush #cultural-heritage-preservation
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