Unmarked graves found in black cemetery

A survey of a historically black cemetery in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, has found about 60 unmarked graves.

North Carolina restoration

Students in North Carolina are helping to restore a neglected black cemetery

Cemetery in disrepair (in spots) in North Carolina

Some of the grounds look OK at a Statesville cemetery, according to this article, but there are broken and missing headstones and other problems, including larger one of who should be taking care of the cemetery.

Greensboro, North Carolina,, wrestles with neglected cemetery

Citizens are striving to resurrect and preserve an old cemetery in the town.

North Carolina cemetery under local man's care

Because there is no record of actual ownership of a historic cemetery in Dobson, North Carolina, a local businessman has taken it upon himself to care for the site.

Bees nesting in North Carolina cemetery

Some solitary mining bees are making their homes in the Gaston, North Carolina, Memorial Park. But folks shouldn't fret; experts say the bees' nests -- holes in the ground -- actually aerate lawns. The bees are not aggressive. From the article:

Solitary, ground nesting bees play a vital role in ecological systems,
especially in pollination of crops and wild plants.

Updates: School construction at slave cemetery site in North Carolina

Here are another couple of links about a proposal to build a school over what some say is a former slave cemetery, from the NBC affiliate and the Raleigh News & Observer, the latter of which includes news that a citizens advisory board is backing a rezoning effort to make it easier for the school to be built. It also says that cemetery preservationists are critical of the work done by a consultant that examining the site, and that they also think Native Americans are buried there.

School to be built on slave cemetery?

A few reports out of North Carolina indicate that some people fear that a proposed school in Wake County would be built on what was a slave cemetery. Here are a few of those reports: from the Raleigh News & Observer, the CBS affiliate, WNCT, and the ABC affiliate, WTVD

North Carolina veterans cemetery closer to becoming a reality

Officials in Snow Hill, in eastern North Carolina, say they look favorably at a plan to provide a veterans cemetery. The town has a 59-acre plot of ground the town bought in 1996 with the idea of turning it into a cemetery.