(Editor’s Note: This story ran during our first year, Oct. 3, 2017, and was written by Shannon Carey.)
Volunteers and students are working to pull an abandoned cemetery back from the …
Weaks Cemetery receives national recognition
The efforts to restore an abandoned African-American cemetery in the Dante community have been recognized by the Association for Gravestone Studies. The association gave Central High School’s HOSA students and Dante …
Update: Local businesses boost Weaks Cemetery
Two months ago, we reported on an effort to restore an abandoned African-American cemetery in the Dante community near Powell. Central High School health sciences teacher Chris Hammond contacted us …
Volunteers, students restore abandoned cemetery
Volunteers and students are working to pull an abandoned cemetery back from the brink. Weaks Cemetery, an African-American cemetery dating back to at least 1907, was overgrown and used as …